Dr. Baker. That in general two or three doses of some purging medicine ought to be given, almost all inoculators have agreed.
Couns. for the Pris. Now, Dr. Baker, give me leave to ask you, as a physician, whether it be your opinion that the marvellous success, of which the Prisoner stands accused, be owing to the peculiar virtue of any medicine or medicines, known only to himself and his accomplices?
Dr. Baker. I am of opinion it is not.
Couns. for the Pris. To what cause then do you ascribe that success?
Dr. Baker. Principally to the free use of cold air.
Couns for the Pris. Is he the only inoculator who allows his patients the free use of cold air?
Dr. Baker. Not now: the practice is at present very general in many parts of this kingdom.
Couns. for the Pris. Was he the inventor of this cold regimen?
Dr. Baker. I cannot accuse him of being the inventor, because it is strenuously recommended, in the natural small pox, by writers of the first rank, particularly Sydenham, whose works are in the hands of every physician.
Couns. for the Pris. We shall now call a physician sufficiently known in the medical world, particularly by his Analysis of Inoculation.