Volume 2

An examination of Dr. Woodward's State of physick and diseases / [John Quincy].

  • Quincy, John, -1722.
Date:
1719
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Credit: An examination of Dr. Woodward's State of physick and diseases / [John Quincy]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    take about this Controverjy: I mean the Free- Thinker, uho, in one of his Papers h(^ given fuch a Turn to this Affair, as would lead an unwa-^ ry Reader into an Apprehenjion, that Dr, Wood- \vard had been injurioujly treated by the Faculty, ifhis ingenicm Cenfor judged according to the Re- prefentafton made to him of this Affair, which was mofi certainly done by partial Friends', hut his Candour and Fairnefs is fuch^ that I make no doubt but he will lay the Fault on the other fide, when the , Matter comes to be flated to him in a true Light I and he may be affured, the exhibiting an aukward Piece of Malice on the Sta ge, was fo far from being encouraged by any Gentlemen corfiderable in the Faculty, that it met with all poffible Difcourage- ment and Oppofition from them* BVTl the furefi way to be Jet right touching the Grounds of Provocation and Id-Ufage^ is to read over the DoElors Book, which / find few have done, tho almojl all are become Parties in the Difpute ; and whofoever does this, lam utterly miflaken if they cannot eafily account for a great deal of this kind of Treat-^ ment, without imagining Perfons of CharaEler to he concerned in it , for fo much TVeaknefs, with fo ‘ much Id-Nature, can never fail of Multitudes in its Oppofition, becaufe every one, who is not better ♦ Numb. 125. A3 employed^