A letter to Erasmus Darwin, M.D. on a new method of treating pulmonary consumption, and some other diseases hitherto found incurable / by Thomas Beddoes, M.D.

  • Thomas Beddoes
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[1793]
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Credit: A letter to Erasmus Darwin, M.D. on a new method of treating pulmonary consumption, and some other diseases hitherto found incurable / by Thomas Beddoes, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [62 ] . be the caufe of this fatal difeafe. But by infti- tuting other experiments with different kinds or proportions of airs, you will, at leaft, if your firft experiments mould not fucceed to your utmoft wim, hold out hopes to thofe unfortu- nate young men and women; who, if they knew the general fatality of their difeafe under the prefent modes of treatment, would defpond at the commencement of it, or wifh to try fome new kind of medicine : For though catarrhs arc fometimes miftaken for confumptions by the ignorant, or are defignedly called fo by the crafty, and are hence fuppofed occafionally to have been cured; yet it is well known to attentive practitioners, that thofe patients, who are truly confumptive from pulmonary ulcers, which have arifen fpontaneoufly, (and are thus diftirguifhable from a fingle ulcer owing to violent peripneumony, or the wound of a fword)—whether they are kept on vegetable or on animal diet; and whether, with the ufual quantity of wine and beer, or with water and milk