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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    [ 7* ] cial to ulcerated lungs, and fo far folvc Dr. Darwin's problem ? 4. It is common in France, and, I believe alfo in Ireland, to lodge phthifical patients in cow-houfes, on the fuppofition that the tweet breath of the cow is healing and balfamic. V air dis enables de belts a comes, fays Dr. Metherie, est assez pur pour que 'la medicine ait cru pouvoir Le conseiller dans les maux de poitrine f/lirs. 1788. II. 13.^ But if it be beneficial, is not the effect much more probably- owing to the fubtraction of oxygene by the refpiralion' of the animals ? T. B. 5th July, 1793. N. B. The few typographical errors in the preceding pages art. such as every reader will be able tc correcl. Of the Bookfellers named in the title page may be had, 1. Spallanzani's DISSERTATIONS on DIGESTION, &c. 2 vols, tranflatcd from the Italian, with additions, by Thomas Bkddoes, M. D. Second Edition. 2. CHEMICAL EXPERIMENTS of a Philofopher of the laft Century, being an account of Mayow's Difco- very of the Principal Properties of Elaftic Fluids, by Thomas Beddoes, M. D.-'-Price 2s. 6d.' 3. OBSERVATIONS on the Nature and Cure of Calcu- lus, Confumption, Sea Scurvy, Fever, &c. 8vo. by the • SAME. 1. The HISTORY of ISAAC JENKINS and SARAH his Wife, and their Three Children.—Price 3d. by the SAME.