An account of Dr. Quincy's Examination of Dr. Woodward's state of physick and diseases. In a letter to the Freethinker.

Date:
1719
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Credit: An account of Dr. Quincy's Examination of Dr. Woodward's state of physick and diseases. In a letter to the Freethinker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f *7 1 Name was not as much as known to Dr. Woodward. Betides, that the Gentlemen he thinks injur’d could juftify themfelves,or they could not. If this laft be the cafe, as tnoft Peo¬ ple are inclin’d to believe. Dr. Quincy, who allows ’em to be fo much his Superiors, and who proclaims ’em the mod eminent of the Faculty, could not in modefty hope to fuc- oeed better ; not to fpeak of his Of- ficioufnefs in thrufting his Sickle in¬ to other Men’s Corn, though I will not fay that he came unhid. Or fuppoling thofe Gentlemen thought themfelves able to anfwer for their own Praftice, what other Conltrufti- on can be put upon their not doing of it? But that having fomething to do, and Dr. Quincy nothing, they devolv’d the Drudgery upon him, aind like wife the Dishonour, in cafe their Defence thould be deem’d in- fufficient. Do not imagine, however, that I blame him meerly for writing again!! Dr. Woodward. ’Tis every Man’s Duty to warn the Publick of fuch Errors, as he judges may be de¬ trimental or fatal to it : And thould his