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A Defense of Dr. Oliphant's short discourse of the usefulness of vomiting in fevers in answer to the melius inquiredum &c. / in a letter to a friend.
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Wing D813; ESTC R37721
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A DEFENCE OF Dr. Oliphant's SHORT DISCOVRSE Of the USEFULNESS of VOMITING in FEVERS In ANSWER to The Melius inquirendum c. â—n a LETTER to a Friend Maledicus a Malefico non distat nisi occasione Quintil. EDINBURGH â—rinted by J. W. for Thomas Carruthers and sold at his Shop in the Parliament â—â—loss Anno Dom. M. DC.XC.IX Sir YOur Surprise was but equal to my own when you saw the Answer to Dr. O's Discourse about Vomiting in â—evers the passing over his Reasoning with seeming Negligence and the Wresting â—nd Suppressing his Quotations were but â—â—ch Replyes as the Dr. expected seing â—here could be no other But the Represenâ—tion of the Matter of Fact is so grosly false â—nd doth so consist with my own Knowâ—dge that I thought my self in Justice and â—riendship obliged to make you and the â—orld acquainted with it And here I shall â—ot insist on the Dr's own Assertion which 〈◊〉 you and me who know him will go furâ—er than that of the Answerer But a â—entleman of Undoubted Credit who was â—y when the Dr. was first called told me â—hat when he proposed Vomiting to the Paâ—ent he so far disowned the getting of seâ—eral Vomits before that he told the Dr. he â—as sure it was the only thing would do him â—ood and that he was sorry he had not calâ—ed him sooner And for the Answerer's Apâ—ealing to the Apothecary's File by which â—e says it is manifest he had been Vomited seeral times tho I had heard Mr Montelth whom the Patient employed as such openly affirm the contrary yet I could not imagine any Man would be so Bare-fac'd without some Ground so that to be fully satisfy'd I went with the Dr. to the Shop and not only saw the Ordinary's Bills but got a Copy of them written by the Apothecary's own Servant and Attested by him and his Master who was present to be the only had been ordered before the Dr. was called They are as follows July 12. R. Decoct Com. pro Clyst Lib. 1. In Colat. dissolv Elect. lenit unc 1. semis Mel. Merc. unc 1. Sal. Prunel dr 1. F. Clyster R. Amygd d. exc no. x. sem 4. frig maj a dr 1. pap alb dr 11. cum s q. Aq. Font. F. Emulsio ad lib. 1. In Colat. dissolv sach cand Aq. Cinam a. unc semis July 13. R. Decoct amar cum dupl senna unc 4. in Colat. dissolv sal absinth dr semis F. potio And each of these was once repeated And except the Answerer call Vomits anâ— Emollient Clyster an Emulsion and the bitter Decoction with two Drachms of Senna which is more proper for allaying of Vomiting than provoking it there was not so much as the Vestige of any other The Dr. did not think these worth mentioning in the Account he gave because they were no way proportioned to the Greatness of the Disease and what he had mentioned were the Remedies mostly insisted upon and he said very justly a Man might as reasonably expect to take a Fort with no better Artillery than Pen-guns as to think to make such Evacuations as were evidently necessary by such Ineffectual Medicines These Frightful Symptoms as want of Pulse Spasms c. which we are told in the Answer folâ—owed the taking the Vomit ordered by the Dr are as false as that the Answerer had given one himself And the Dr. was so far from being in any great Apprehension of Danger that it was not his own Motion to call any other Physician it was done to comply with the Desire of the Gentleman 's own Lady who had too near a Concern to be a proper Judge in the Affair and who without any Wonder might be allarum'd when the Life of so kind and deserving a Husband seem'd any way in Danger When that other Physician and the Dr. came together they found him in so Soft and Sound a Sleep that they stayed a considerable time before they would disturb him so far was he from that low Pass the Answerer brings him to And to vindicat what these two Gentlemen thought proper to be done afterwards against any Reflections made by the Answerer I think it is at least sufficient to oppone their joynt Opinion against 〈◊〉 single one As for the Dr's leaving the Pâ—tient before he saw the Effect of the Vom it is of the same Piece with the rest seiâ—â— he was actually by him most part of all thâ— Day That this is the true Matter of Faâ—â— any Man who will give himself the Troubâ—â— to enquire may be satisfied either from tâ—â—â— Apothecary or the Gentleman himself these who were Assistants But it is no woâ—der the Answerer had nothing but false Câ—lumnies to stuff his Paper with or you knoâ— Stultorum Thesaurus Maledicentia Amongst the other Slanders he asperse the Dr. with there can be none more Mâ—licious than that of calling him a Banterer Scripture and saying it was a Syropheniciâ— Story which you and my self and otheâ— who ever discoursed him on that head knoâ— to be so false that we have all the Reason the World to think the Dr. does more firmlâ— and upon more solid Grounds believe thoâ— Sacred Truths contained in Scripture thâ—â— any of his Accusers do But it is easie to dâ—â—cover the base Motives of some People 〈◊〉 dispersing such Calumnies not only of him but of others who I believe are equally Innocent But I shall wave all this and maâ—â— hast to the Answers given to the Dr's Reâ—sons and Authorities And First He passeth over the Dr's own â—easonings by tellling he grants all and â—hat the Dr. Discourseth concerning Bloodâ—ng before Evacuations he says concerns â—vacuations in general and so leaves them â—s he found them I have nothing to reply â—o that but refer you to them again only 〈◊〉 cannot understand what he means by Evaâ—uations in general seeing the Dr. is speakâ—ng plainly of Evacuations in continued Feâ—ers when the Stomach and Primae viae are â—vercharged with Choler and other Humours I come next to the Authorities The Dr. had made an evident Consequence from two Aphorisms of Hippocrates which may be reduced to a plain Sylogism â—hus When Humours are to be Evacuated let â—â—t be done the way that Nature affects most i. e. â—f there be an Inclination to Vomiting by Vomiting but in very acute Diseases let the Humors be Evacuated that same day if the Matter is turgid which is any day so long as the Matter is turgid Ergo. Now To overturn this the Answerer brings another Aphoâ—ism which proves that Hippocrates was against Vomiting in Fevers which the Dr. â—ad obviated by acquainting us that Hippocrates knew no Effectual Vomit could be safely given in any case This is answered by calling it Stuff though it be the very same thing Fernel says The Dr. had also taken notice that the Fevers in those Climatâ— and Times were far from what we now have which has made several of these Aphorism in acute Diseases which either were not understood or not