A Letter to Dr Thomson, in answer to the case of the Right Honourable Thomas Winnington, Esq; By William Douglas, M.D. Physician to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales's Houshold, and Man-Midwife.

27, [1]p. 8vo. BOUND WITH: CAMPBELL, J. A Letter from J. Campbell, M.D. A Physician in the Country, to His Friend in Town, Occasion'd by The Case of the Right Honourable Thomas Winington, Esq.; lately publish'd by Thomas Thomson, M.D. Printed for L. Raymond, and sold by A. More. 24pp, half title. 8vo. Final page is misnumbered 42. Inner margin of final leaf & small tear to half title neatly repaired, as are two small marginal holes on half title caused by some time adhesion to titlepage. Two titles bound together in modern, but not recent, plain boards, paper spine label. Bookplate of D.A.H. Moses, M.C. ESTC T3143. First edition; ESTC T3144. First edition. Dr Thomas Thompson, a Scottish physician based in London, was wealthy and successful, with many influential and high profile patients. However, his treatment of rheumatic fever in Thomas Winnington, the Paymaster General, was thoroughly unsuccessful, and on the death of his patient, a savage medical pamphlet war ensued. One of the first attacks was by William Douglas, a fellow Scottish physician, whose 'Letter' was published in June 1746. Smollett, defended Thomson's methods in Thomsonus Redivivus, and Campbell, a 'country-physician' also published a counter-defence to Douglas's initial attack.…