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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    fheby, lie remembers nothing that payed for four, or Five days together after the taking tht fomit* Why, what if he did not; does that prove hpremembred nothing before he took |hp Vomit $ Now I hope, the Refuter doth f|Gt pretend he Vomited the Patient after the: Df. had done it. It was unlucky indeed the patient fhould have remembered the Dr s ¥ omit, and the great Benefit he found by || f which he asjuftly as Generoufly, own’d:: pn all Occafions, and frequently to the Dr. fiimfelf ) and in the mean time have forgot fliat the Ordinary had givjen him feverals be¬ fore. However, I do afiiire the Refuter, J jiad the Dr. known any thing of his giving; Warm Water or Whey for Vomits, he would have been far from denying them place a- ipong his other Achillean Cures and Pen-gun-* n v4rt 'tilery. And here I muft take notice of a moil admirable turn of Giga-ntick Wit in the Refutation; the Dr. in his Defence is {peak¬ ing of the Anfwerers Remedies as no better Artillery to attack the Difeafe,than Pen-Gunsi3 would be to take a Fort; and here the Refut- pr molt waggilhly turns the Cannon on the: Dr. by turning the Body of the Patient intou the Cannon : I do confefs indeed, fayes he, $hfy qre hup Pen-Guns in Refpect of the Dr sjj Artillery, the Difcharging of which had inis .fag/f tqking the Forty qlmcji fflit the Can-