An answer to the pretended refutation of Dr. Olyphant's defence.

Date:
M.DC.XC.IX
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Credit: An answer to the pretended refutation of Dr. Olyphant's defence. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    « • IT) EAR SIR. Thank you for the Prelent of your fmall Treatife about Vomiting in Fevers but at the fame time, I approve of your Realons,you rauft give me leave to condemn your Condud:: I know you begin to florm at this; But have a little Patience. There was a Phyfician of this Town, perhaps the moft Famous ini his time, being called to his Patient, complaining (it may be) of an Opprelhon at his Stomach; he would Very lately and cautioufly Order him a Gentle De¬ coction otCarduus, fometimes hot Water- I don t know but he would allow now and then fat Mutton Broth too. The Patient was Vomited and the Do Tor could juffifie himfelf that he had not omitted that ne- ceflary evacuation; this was his conftant Practice Being Chid by his Collegues, who well knew he neglected Antimony? not out of Ignorance or Fear, he would Roguife- ly tell tliem, Come, come Gentlemen/ that might cure my Patient, but it would kill the Diltemper, and I Ihould have lets Money in my Pocket. A pretty Bufmefs indeed, a Rich Citizen overgorges himfelf, which bv may improv’d into a good fubftantial Fever, worth at leafl Twenty Guineas; and you would have me nip the Plant