A reply to Dr. Trotter's second pamphlet, respecting the means of destroying the fire-damp / by the author of "An address to the proprietors and managers of coal mines."

Date:
1806
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Credit: A reply to Dr. Trotter's second pamphlet, respecting the means of destroying the fire-damp / by the author of "An address to the proprietors and managers of coal mines.". Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    *3 the DoClor is pleafed to term it, that no analyfis of this gas has hitherto been effect- ed ; or rather does not the ignominy, if any, attach to him, who, anticipating this analyfis, rafhly propofes means which are not adapted to the evil, either by their na- ture or by their extent ? In medicine, the DoCtor has told you, and truly, that a doubtful remedy is better than none. But to defend his “ Propofal,” it will be necef- fary for him to fhow, that a doubtful and inadequate remedy is better than one which has been proved to be capable, when judi- cioufly adminiffered, of all the efficacy 'con- fident with the nature of the difeafe. DoClor Trotter accufes me of rafhly at- tempting to calculate with mathematical certainty the bulk of fire-damp; and of in- timidating you* from the experiment by an