Considerations on the medicinal use of factitious airs and on the manner of obtaining them in large quantities. [Parts I-II] / [Thomas Beddoes].

Thomas Beddoes

Date:: [1794]

Credit: Considerations on the medicinal use of factitious airs and on the manner of obtaining them in large quantities. [Parts I-II] / [Thomas Beddoes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$\ * * * mould within the wire, until it is fowed up,—Where the water-proof leather cannot be had, good tanned calf lea= ther may be ufed, and it may be made air tight by anointing it warm, with the following compo£r*©n, taking care to foak it well in, by help of the heat. Take Bees wax one ounce. White rofin one quarter of an ounce. Olive oil half a drachm. Oil of turpentine 3 ounces. DifTolve the other ingredients in the oii of turpentine by heat, and always warm it before you ufe it. Some excufe fhould be made to the publick for the defultory and incorreft manner in which thefe direftions are written. The truth is, the fubjeft was nearly new to me, my knowledge has advanced in confequence of experiments, and I have therefore added whatever I. thought might be ufeful, as it occurred, and I have been more fiudious of things than of words. As they are, ! hope they will be of fome ufe, and in that cafe, I fhall feel amply rewarded for my labour and attention. N. B. Thin oiled filk, though well oiled, I have not found to anfwer fo well as thick. I have direfted an hydraulic bellows of 2 or 3 cubic feet contents, for pa¬ tients to breathe out of, and think this preferable to oiled filk bags. Both will be ufeful. T. B, C 2 CONTENTS i /$