The state of physick: and of diseases; with an inquiry into the causes of the late increase of them: but more particularly of the small-pox. With some considerations upon the new practice of purgeing in that disease. To the whole is premised, An idea of the nature and mechanism of man: of the disorders to which it is obnoxious: and of the method of rectifying them ..
Medical controversies in the 18th century occasionally took on a virulent character. On the evening of June 10, 1719, in the quadrangle of Gresham College, Richard Mead and John Woodward began a duel with swords about their views on the treatment of smallpox, which was stopped by bystanders and term...
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