Thomsonus redivivus; or, a reply to W--M D-G-S, M.D. [i.e. William Douglas, in his Letter to Dr. Thompson, in answer to 'The case of T. Winnington'] / By Dr. Sangrado [i.e. Dr. Broxholme].

  • Broxolme, Noel, 1689?-1748.
Date:
[1746]
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Credit: Thomsonus redivivus; or, a reply to W--M D-G-S, M.D. [i.e. William Douglas, in his Letter to Dr. Thompson, in answer to 'The case of T. Winnington'] / By Dr. Sangrado [i.e. Dr. Broxholme]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Vs 3 learned Profeflbr you compleated your medici¬ nal Studies, one wou’d imagine you imbib’d your art of Deputation at Figg s Amphithe¬ atre , and cull’d your Flowers of Rhetoric from the Bear-Garden. • 'ii- • You tell us you are a Man-Midwife, but you feem to have borrow’d your Stile of the Silterhoodj Scolding, and calling Names, better become Nurfes and Midwives, than Gentlemen of the Faculty. Y ou mention your connexion with the Court of an illuftrious Prince, your Attendance upon an honourable Houlhold, but your Dia¬ led ill becomes a Courtier: If you have im¬ prov’d the Health of your Patients, in the fame Proportion that you improv’d your Man¬ ners, we muft judge very unfavourably of your Succefs. c Ignorant, Audacious, Impudence, c Ajfuranccy in the Compafs of five Lines: Pretty Terms for a Phyfician! A Man of Learning! A fine Compliment to that Royal Perfonage, who has vouchfaf’d to diftinguifh Dr. Thomson, and whofe Favour Ihou’d have fcreen’d him from the Infults of your Outrage, without any Influence in the Me¬ rits of the Caufe! We have been told indeed, Ingenuas didicijfc fidelitcr artes, emollit mores. This Effed of foftening the Difpofition, po- i