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<HEAD>AN ANSWER BY <HI>Doctor Black:</HI> TO A LETTER WRITTEN To a Friend in the Countrey, concerning Dr. <HI>Broun's Vin|dicatory Schedule,</HI> &amp;c. By <HI>Philander.</HI></HEAD>
<P>MUch hath been talked by &s;ome two or three young Phy&s;itians, <HI>Dol|phingtouns</HI> Di&s;ciples (for through all <HI>Scotland</HI> they do not exceed that number) of his An&s;wer to the Survey of the <HI>Vindica|tory Schedule:</HI> It was &s;aid to be a piece, that would &s;o Nettle the Phy&s;icians his &s;uppo&s;ed Antagoni&s;ts, and &s;o confound them; that they &s;hould wi&s;h never to have meddled in the Matter. Now it appears, and &s;o Silly a piece
<PB N="2" REF="2">of Stuff is again obtruded upon the World, that it &s;hould not be thought worth the while to An&s;wer it, were it not to invite the&s;e Gen|tlemen to enter the Li&s;ts; for better than this cannot be expected from <HI>Dolphingtoun,</HI> or from any of his Abilities.</P>
<P>The greate&s;t part of the Survey being &s;pent in expo&s;ing the Author, and his <HI>Schedule,</HI> about the end, the <HI>Hypothe&s;is,</HI> and the method are &s;eriou&s;ly Refuted. It might have been ex|pected that <HI>Dolphingtoun</HI>'s Coun&s;el &s;hould have &s;ugge&s;ted to him, to &s;ay &s;omething in Vindication of him&s;elf with re&s;pect to tho&s;e matters of Fact, with which he &s;tands brand|ed; and &s;omething for the <HI>Hypothe&s;is,</HI> which really is contrary to the circulation of the Blood, and to the mechanical &s;tructure of the Heart and Arteries; and &s;omewhat like wayes in favour of his method from rea&s;on; as al&s;o in defence of the many pa&s;&s;ages of his Book, which are taxed with Non&s;en&s;e, or Contra|diction. But all the&s;e he hath indu&s;triou&s;ly a|voided, judging it fitter to amu&s;e the World with general Terms, (which every Blockhead that meets with oppo&s;ition, may &s;ay in his own defence) and reflections upon the Au|thor of the Survey, whom he will not allow to be one; but through all his Letter he &s;peaks
<PB N="3" REF="2">of him in the Plural Number; I &s;uppo&s;e 'tis be|cau&s;e having in the 9th page called him&s;elf a Champion, he thinks one too few to grapple with him. The truth is the greate&s;t part of the Survey admits no An&s;wer, it being either his own in <HI>Terminis,</HI> or mo&s;t natural con&s;e|quences drawn from it, intermixt with mat|ters of Fact, which he hath left, as he found them, not thinking it convenient to rip up old Sores.</P>
<P>Before I enter upon examination of his Letter, it is to be ob&s;erved that he hath got &s;ome good by the Survey; for his Friends have helped him to wipe his Stile, though not to any great degree: and under the covert of this, and the per&s;onating another, he ex|pects to hide him&s;elf: Yet in &s;pite of this ar|tifice, his <HI>Synonima,</HI> which without doubt he hath learned at the Letren, and his per|plexed Banter di&s;cover him perpetually.</P>
<P>He begins his Letter with a ridiculous &s;tory of Grief, and Plea&s;ure, which many have with relation to him and his method: <HI>They have grief,</HI> &s;ayes he, <HI>when they con&s;ider that their Friends, who dyed of Feavers, were not treated by the purging method; &s;ince &s;o much can be &s;aid for that method from rea&s;on, and experience.</HI> But for all this fair flouri&s;h
<PB N="4" REF="3">he &s;ayes never a word for it either from Rea|&s;on or experience, except in the end, where he gives &s;ome in&s;tances of Cures (of which in their due place) and he leaves unan&s;wered, what was &s;aid in the Survey again&s;t the me|thod both from rea&s;on, and experience. In the next place he tells us <HI>that lea&s;t the Phy&s;icians &s;hould be branded with over &s;ight, or negligence becau&s;e they have not been the fir&s;t Di&s;cover|ers or Entertainers of this method, therefore they &s;uppre&s;s it.</HI> Which is a gro&s;s Calumny: I know no Phy&s;ician either &s;o wicked, or fool|i&s;h, as to refu&s;e a better method, than what at pre&s;ent he practi&s;eth, &s;o he can be convinced, that there is any &s;uch: But I think no wi&s;e Phy&s;ician will quite the method he has found &s;uccesful, for a new one e&s;tabli&s;hed only up|on the practice of one or two incon&s;iderable Phy&s;icians, and the&s;e as un&s;uccesful as o|thers; e&s;pecially &s;ince Rea&s;on hath formed &s;o many prejudices again&s;t it, that 'tis impo&s;|&s;ible for a judicious Per&s;on following the dictates of his Rea&s;on, to determine him&s;elf that way. Be&s;ides 'tis di&s;ingenous in <HI>Dol|phingtoun</HI> to &s;ay that any foul means have been u&s;ed to &s;uppre&s;s this his method: I know &s;ome foul ones have been u&s;ed to advance it, and its admirers; whereof &s;ome &s;tand unan|&s;wered in the Survey.</P>
<P><PB N="5" REF="3">
The 2d. Parag. Is &s;tuff't with <HI>Dolphing+toun</HI>'s kind &s;entiments of plea&s;ure, that he's become an Author. <HI>For</HI> &s;ays he <HI>The inqui&s;i|tive are not a little delighted to find a concern &s;o important handled &s;o ingeniou&s;ly, and a De&s;ign &s;o profitable, pro&s;ecute &s;o plau&s;ibly. Tho the medical Art be truly, if it contain any thing of certainty or reality, hid &s;o deep from the eyes of Men, that the world is much in doubt whether it be an Art or Artifice: Yet I find as ye likewayes ob&s;erve, that the Au|thor in his Book has done prettily to prove it an Art.</HI> Truly Fool-<HI>Andrew</HI> (for I cannot otherwayes decipher this <HI>Philander</HI>) what you have &s;aid here may give the world a &s;uffi|cient Character of your Vanity. for &s;ure I am; was never more Incen&s;e burnt to Self-conceit, than is done here: I mu&s;t &s;ay Medicine has little to &s;ay for it &s;elf, it depend upon <HI>Dol|phingtoun</HI>'s <HI>prettily done Book</HI> to prove it an Art.</P>
<P>What he talks of the Phy&s;icians faults in 3d, parag. I know none &s;o guilty as him&s;elf of the&s;e faults for which he blames Others; nei|ther do I know any Phy&s;ician troubled about his charging them with faults, nor grudging at it; &s;o he might have had &s;pared his pains.</P>
<P>'Twas no wonder if the Phy&s;icians hu|mours
<PB N="6" REF="4">had been rai&s;ed, as he tells In the 4th, parag. To find an original piece of Banter obtruded upon the World, in defence of a new method in Medicine, Stuff't with a Col|lection of things pick's up here, and there, at Random; which have no more relation to one another, then his <HI>Schedule</HI> hath to Learning, or Sen&s;e: But they have neither breathed out Malice, nor Spite again&s;t him; they have on|ly told the truth to his Shame, were he Ca|pable of any.</P>
<P>The 5th, parag. Mu&s;t be U&s;her'd in with <HI>Revolutions, Reformations, Strugle, and Commotion, Changes, and Earthquakes.</HI> One would think the <HI>Cat</HI> of <HI>Smalholm</HI> were pro|phecying that the whole cour&s;e of Nature &s;hould be in danger to be di&s;&s;olved, when <HI>Dolphingtouns</HI> new method were introduced into the World. His Me&s;&s;enger of Satan did not &s;ucceed with him &s;o well, to abu&s;e the Scriptures again. As his Friend, I would advi&s;e him to quite his Tub-preaching to others.</P>
<P>As to the 6th, parag. To bring in him&s;elf upon other mens practice, is as notable an in|&s;tance of his <HI>Envy,</HI> as any thing I know. Of Pride he hath arraigned him&s;elf already, ac|knowledging he needed Buffetting for his loftine&s;s of mind.</P>
<P><PB N="7" REF="4">
All that's &s;aid in the 7th, parag. about <HI>Splendour, and brightne&s;s of Truth, and light of rai&s;ing Dirt and Mist to throw upon the Propagators and Advancers of Truth,</HI> is as far out of his road, as are his ridiculous &s;tories of <HI>Luther,</HI> and the <HI>Devil;</HI> Sir, <HI>Satan,</HI> and Dr. <HI>Sherlock,</HI> But in his <HI>Schedule</HI> he gives us a <HI>Specimen</HI> of his reading in Medicine: Now he gives us one in Pamphlets. As for his <HI>Book,</HI> it has got a more &s;olid An&s;wer, than it de|&s;erved: So he &s;eems to be a fal&s;e <HI>Prophet.</HI></P>
<P>For An&s;wer to the 8th, parag. I know none that thought the debate in hand of great im|portance: The method was Doctor <HI>Syden|ham</HI>'s, and the <HI>Schedule</HI> was publi&s;hed to &s;trengthen the Doctors Rea&s;onings; but by ill luck it weakened them: Solid rea&s;ons were given for the not u&s;ing the method, but no|thing can convince a head-&s;trong Fool ena|moured with the productions of his own brain: Neither is the Survey ridiculous, but &s;o much of it as is his. And for the per&s;onal reflections, they are all very true, and are in relation to his practice; &s;o that Merry <HI>Andrew</HI> hath ac|quit him&s;elf like a man of <HI>parts,</HI> in giving an an&s;wer, &s;uch as the &s;ubject de&s;erved, or could bear; like a man <HI>Probity,</HI> in expo&s;ing one, who&s;e de&s;ign is to Cozen the World: And
<PB N="8" REF="5">were Fool-<HI>Andrew</HI> a man of parts, he might Blu&s;h for his Book; but how it &s;hould Blu&s;h I doe not under&s;tand. If he will not be advi&s;|ed to leave off his Tub-preaching, at lea&s;t he would take care to cite the Scriptures right, for <HI>Faith</HI> is here &s;et down for <HI>Hope.</HI></P>
<P>For An&s;wer to the 9th, parag. I &s;hall not conde&s;cend upon the&s;e men he charges with <HI>Impudence,</HI> and <HI>Folly,</HI> &s;ince he thought it not fit to name them; but &s;ure I am, they have a larger &s;hare of both, than any of my ac|quaintance, if their <HI>Impudence or Folly</HI> come near his. The ancient practice in Feavers hath been more &s;uccesful than his new practice, my a&s;&s;ertion is as good as his denyal, and much better grounded. <HI>If it be delu&s;ion to think to put off the world with Banter,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>In &s;uch a weighty matter as this is,</HI> why hath he wrote a Book of Banter in this matter? and this very Letter of his is not free of it; for here is a new E&s;&s;ay of that kind, <HI>though the petulancy of &s;ome &s;uperficial Pates like the Authors, may be tickled, and Palats tinged with the &s;ame virulence of Malice with the Libellers, may be gratified with &s;uch &s;currili|ties:</HI> So natural is this &s;tile to him, that in &s;pite of his Feigned Per&s;on, and other endea|vours to conceal him&s;elf yet his &s;peech &s;till bewrayes him.</P>
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There is nothing in the 10th, parag. That de&s;erves ob&s;ervation.</P>
<P>For An&s;wer to the 11th, parag. The Sur|vey &s;ent him to <HI>Purgatory</HI> to Refine him from his Dro&s;s; but he, ever fertile of new methods, hath found out a new way of Re|fining him&s;elf, which is to <HI>Snuff</HI> him, as they do a <HI>Candle,</HI> that his vertue may &s;hine more bright. Here we have a new E&s;&s;ay &s;omething in kin to <HI>Banter, to Enconter Malice cartel Envy, and to defy detraction and defamation.</HI></P>
<P>For An&s;wer to the 12 parag he knows that D, <HI>Dal.</HI> and D, <HI>Dav.</HI> Entreated him not to publi&s;h his <HI>Schedule,</HI> yet out it came, &s;o im+po&s;&s;ible is it to per&s;wade Fools who are ever Fond of their own Productions And &s;ince he &s;ubjected his <HI>Schedule</HI> to the con&s;ideration of all Ingenious Phy&s;icians, he hath got the &s;enti|ments of &s;ome of them about it little to his &s;a|tisfaction; but nothing but applau&s;e will plea&s;e him, which no Ingenuous Phy&s;ician can give.</P>
<P>For An&s;wer to the 13th parag. her's ano|ther In&s;tance of his Fondne&s;s of his ofspring. I &s;hall allow him to compare him&s;elf to the Fatte&s;t fruit (he means the Apples of <HI>Sodom</HI>) or to the Fatte&s;t Dear Horns and all together for I &s;hall not deny him a vegetable or &s;en&s;i|tive Life: But to prefer him&s;elf to <HI>Themisto|cles</HI>
<PB N="10" REF="6">who can endure this? That loftine&s;s of mind has yet need of the Me&s;&s;enger of <HI>Satan.</HI></P>
<P>For An&s;wer to the 14th parag. All the &s;o|ber and &s;erious Men here are comprehended within the number of two or three young Phy&s;icians, who think to be taken notice off by pretending to &s;omething new, and out of the common road; but if they have nor much honour of their Ma&s;ter, I leave it to every in|different Per&s;on to judge. He did well not to end his Latine ver&s;e, lea&s;t he &s;hould fall into the &s;ame Soloeci&s;mes he did la&s;t. A ridiculous piece ought to be treated inridicule, which is not &s;o &s;ham a way of rea&s;oning. If the Survey had been &s;uch Merry <HI>Andrew</HI> &s;tuff, it might have been the more ea&s;iy an&s;wered by tho&s;e who have &s;o much Affinity to that kind of People; but it is a Pamphlet &s;tuff't with &s;o much rea&s;on and truth, that <HI>Dolphingtoun</HI> hath not found it convenient to attaque any particular part of it. But of all men alive why &s;hould <HI>Philander</HI> challenge Dr. <HI>Black</HI> for concealing his name.</P>
<P>The re&s;t of his Letter, is taken up in perform|ing what the <HI>Schedule</HI> fir&s;t prompted to be done. But were it not for fear to give offence to &s;ome Per&s;ons who do not de&s;ire their Rela|tions to be named, the publick &s;hould get a counterli&s;t of tho&s;e that have died under <HI>Dol|phingtouns</HI>
<PB N="11" REF="6">new method. I &s;hall not que&s;tion but &s;ome have e&s;caped under this me|thod, which only proves, that People though ill Treated may recover. But it is not at all rea&s;onable that I &s;hould believe all tho&s;e People had truely we Feaver, &s;ince <HI>Dol|phingtoun</HI> had the impudence to call that a Feaver which two of the mo&s;t eminent Phy&s;icians in <HI>Edinburgh</HI> &s;aid was none, what will he not &s;ay where he is &s;ole Phy&s;ician, and can meet with no contradiction. Upon the whole, that part of <HI>Hip.</HI> Fir&s;t Aph. may be very well applyed here, <HI>Experientia Fallax.</HI></P>
<P>The Letter wrote by <HI>Malthus</HI> to Dr. <HI>Pit|carne</HI> came never to the Doctors hands, and was never &s;een by any but <HI>Dolphingtoun,</HI> &s;o not to be Credited, but &s;aid upon de&s;ign: But let is be &s;o as he would have it, will the Te&s;ti|mony of an Apothecary intere&s;&s;ed upon <HI>Sy|denham</HI>'s Account, ruin a method approved by Thou&s;ands for many Hundred of Years, to e&s;tabli&s;h a new one with &s;uch manife&s;t con|tradiction? I think 'twill not.</P>
<P>Though <HI>Dolphingtouns</HI> ridiculous Hypo|the&s;is was &s;ufficiently refuted before in few words, yet finding &s;ome of our young Phy&s;i|tians applauding it, I thought it would not be ami&s;s to touch it again. I doe not think it
<PB N="12" REF="7">&s;trange for one of <HI>Dolphingtoun</HI>'s Education to have &s;uch a confu&s;ed notion of things, he having never been Abroad at any Univer&s;ity to follow the &s;tudy of Medicine by the ad|vice and direction of able Profe&s;&s;ors appoint|ed for that end: And having received his De|grees only at <HI>Aberdeen,</HI> where there is no pro|fe&s;&s;ion of Medicine. Nothing le&s;s could have been expected from one who had never read the In&s;titutions, had never &s;een any di&s;|&s;ections, cour&s;es of <HI>Chymi&s;try,</HI> nor heard any Colledges upon the practice of Medicine. But for others to pretend to have had a more liberal In&s;titution, and yet robe Pro&s;elites to Doctor <HI>Dolphingtouns;</HI> who can think they have any regard to their Reputation?</P>
<P>There is nothing more ab&s;urd in all his <HI>Schedule</HI> than the, 7th and 8th, Sections about His Hypothe&s;is of the E&s;&s;ence and cau&s;e of Fea|vers. Every Phy&s;ician knows that the heart is a Mu&s;cle endued with &s;piral Fibres fitted for Contraction; that it hath two Ventricles for reception of the Blood in its dilatation; that it hath valvules of two kinds to hinder the return of the Blood from the Arteries to the heart again; that the Arteries have tran&s;|ver&s;e Fibres, by which they contract them|&s;elves and pre&s;s forward the Blood; 'Tis cer|tain
<PB N="13" REF="7">that every part that is contracted has an innate faculty to perform that Action, which is done by the influx of the animal Spirits in|to the Fibres of whatever kind they are. On the contrary it is as certain that all parts, that are dilated, can never dilate them&s;elves, but when dilated they do ever &s;uffer Violence from the humours, or what ever el&s;e they contain ('Tis true the <HI>Pharinx</HI> and the <HI>Car|tilagines Aritenoides</HI> are dilated, not by any thing they contain, but by rea&s;on of the Mu&s;|cles joyned to the out&s;ide of either, &s;o is the mouth dilated by the Mu&s;cles of the nether jaws.) 'Tis al&s;o certain that the Ventricles of the heart (every one of which containeth at lea&s;t a Dragme of Blood when dilated) are of the &s;ame &s;ub&s;tance with the inner Coats of the Arteries and Veins, and are &s;en&s;ible of ir|ritation; that in the dilatation of the Heart, the Quantity, the Heat, the Weight, and the Di&s;tention through the efferve&s;cence of the Blood doe irritat it; that this irritation makes the heart contract it &s;elf without re&s;pect to a final Cau&s;e (as this Dreamer Fancies to him&s;elf; that at the &s;ame in&s;tant of the hearts contraction, the Blood is thru&s;t out with Vio|lence into the <HI>Aorta</HI> and by Continuity in|to all the Arteries of the Body, by which
<PB N="14" REF="8">they are dilated, while the heart is contract|ed; and that the Pul&s;e that &s;tricks our Fin|gers, is nothing el&s;e but the Dilatation of the Arteries, occa&s;ioned by the contraction of the Heart at the &s;ame in&s;tant. For <HI>Dolphing|toun</HI> then to allow, that in a Feaver the pul&s;es are more frequent, and yet to &s;ay that the mo|tion of the Blood is more &s;low, this is the great|e&s;t Non&s;en&s;e one can be capable of For at eve|ry pul&s;e I &s;uppo&s;e but adragme of the Blood to bethru&s;t into the Arteries by the contraction of the Heart, this Blood can not return becau&s;e of the Valvules, forward it mu&s;t go, otherwayes the Arteries &s;hould bur&s;t a&s;under; and con&s;e|quently the more frequent the pul&s;es are, the motion of the Blood mu&s;t be the &s;wifter.</P>
<P>It has been alwayes a received Opinion, that heat in a Feaver is the effect of the ra|pide motion of the Blood Neither does <HI>Dolph|ingtoun's</HI> or <HI>Bontilo's</HI> objection de&s;troy this po&s;ition, for though the Blood Stagnat in an Inflammation, where the member is other|wayes affected with more than ordinary heat; yet there being &s;uch a quantity of extra|va&s;ed Blood, which does not coagulat, but is &s;till fluid, becau&s;e of the few Spirits it retains; And the capillary Arteries being di&s;tended with Blood, which is the cau&s;e of the pul&s;e, where
<PB N="15" REF="8">there was none <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span">; 'tis no wonder if that part be affected <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters">h more than ordinary heat, &s;ince it c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="4 letters">ains more than ordinary Blood; for where there is much Blood there Is much heat. I &s;hall only &s;end <HI>Dolphing|toun</HI> home to Churn his <HI>Butter&punc;</HI> to prove that there is heat in Fluids; after a few hours motion of the Churn he will find the heat he denies; I u&s;e this Familiar in&s;tance, becau&s;e he never found the heat that is rai&s;ed, when the &s;pirit of <HI>Vitriol</HI> is poured upon the Oyle of <HI>Tartar,</HI> &s;ince he never &s;aw the experiment. In immoderate motion of the Body there Is a frequent motion of the Blood, occa&s;ion|ed by the frequent motion of the Mu&s;cles, by this motion the heat is rai&s;ed before there be any Con&s;umption or Wa&s;te. In this mo|tion likewayes the Blood is rarified by the heat, the pores are opened, and &s;weat does for the mo&s;t part follow: But becau&s;e of the &s;epa|ration of the &s;erous part, the Blood at length becomes more thick, which does not fall out till the pulse &s;ettle again; But this Fool mi&s;|takes alwayes the cau&s;e for the Effect.</P>
<P>His Diaphanous Blood, and his reflected, and refracted, rayes of heat in the Body are non&s;en&s;e not worth the refuting.</P>
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After all, this ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="4 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> not given us the definition of a Feaver, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> which we may know its Nature, and E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="4 letters">ce, and its diffe|rence from other Di&s;ea&s;es. But being weary to an&s;wer a Fool in his Folly, I leave this <HI>Mi&s;|anthrope</HI> to his own evil Genius, with this a&s;&s;urance, that whatever further he writes, &s;hall never be thought worthy of my Con|&s;ideration.</P>
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