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A letter from the facetious Dr. Andrew Tripe at Bath, to his loving brother the profound Greshamite, shewing, that the scribendi cacoethes is a distemper arising from a redundancy of biliose salts, and not to be eradicated but by a diurnal course of oyls and vomits : With an appendix concerning the application of Socrates his clyster, and the use of clean linnen in controversy

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Type of record: Book

Title: A letter from the facetious Dr. Andrew Tripe at Bath, to his loving brother the profound Greshamite, shewing, that the scribendi cacoethes is a distemper arising from a redundancy of biliose salts, and not to be eradicated but by a diurnal course of oyls and vomits : With an appendix concerning the application of Socrates his clyster, and the use of clean linnen in controversy

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Classmark: BC Lt WAG

Creator(s): Wagstaffe, William (1685-1725)

Additional creator(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) (Other); Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735) (Other)

Related people: Woodward, John, 1665-1728

Publisher: Printed for J. Morphew near Stationers-hall

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1719

Language: English

Size and medium: 48 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/283104

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001668909705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

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An attack on Dr John Woodward, erroneously attributed to Swift and Arbuthnot; not to be confused with "A letter from the facetious Doctor Andrew Tripe, at Bath, to the venerable Nestor Ironside", 1714, which is attributed to Swift.


Dr. John Woodward, had himself, in his 'State of Physick', 1718, attacked the work of Dr. John Freind. Dr. Richard Mead, who supported Dr. Freind, assualted Dr. Woodward one evening in June 1719 as the latter was entering Gresham College.


Anon., by W. Wagstaffe.

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