IL An Anfwer to 2)r Wrights Letter^ concerning the 
Ctir^e oj- ail ApoJlJmnation of ihe J^^^ ^ William 
» ^Cowper, F. f?^. 5* 
SIR, 
HAd we marc fuch: Communications as you are pleafed 
to favour: us with, the Publick as well as my felf 
would have reafon to be thankful. Ohfervatiofts unqueftio- 
nably are the beft Charts ia Medicinal Practice but they 
muft like j(?//r/ be genuine, and not framed in favour of any 
Hypoiheljs^ when the Relator too otten, not only conceals 
Truth, bur isJocUnabfe io addfomething in favour of his 
Conjeftures.^ ' >^r; 
Nothing occurs to me fo remarkable that you have omit- 
ted in relating Mr Terr/^ crfe, as your Prognoftick of her 
recovery, which indeed you feem induftrioufly to ayoid, 
when it muft be your own obfervations in fuch difficult 
cafes that made you Matter of the confequence, which I 
cannot forbear putting you in mind of, when you fo often 
encouraged rne to expeft fucccfs in her cafe, that was gene- 
nerally lookt upon as deplorable^ You may remember, that 
the Matter or Pus which firft flowed from her fide was fo 
ofFenfive in its fcent, as obliged the By-ftanders to quit the 
Chamber, infomuch that the Nurfe ufually at the time of 
dreffing and afterwards, was wont to burn Rofemary, &c. 
to fupprefs the Stench. So putrid was the ^us that it tar- 
ni(hed that end of the Silver Probe I paft into the cavity of 
the Abfcefs, as it did the top of a Silver Syringe in making 
Injeftions. There feems no room to doubt that the 
which then flowed from her fide came from the fame cavi- 
ty 
