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.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    An obfervation I made during the time G. Crump infpired the air, is perhaps worth notice—at leaft I mould wifli to know if it produced the fame' efFecls in others, that is, in a morning previous to his ufing it his breath Was moft abominably foetid—that after ufing it two or three times it became not only very eafy, but alfo very fweet, and continued fo, fometimes for two or three days—he alfo told us at the firft infpiration, whether it would relieve him or not, by faying he would not tire himfelf, for that it was not of the right fort— though the bell fhaped inftrument rofe with the ufual regularity in the water: I am not chemift fufficient to explain this T. I beg you will excufe the hafty manner in which I have fent you the above account; and hope you will + The hydrogene air having been procured fometimes by means of heated iron, and fometimes by means of charcoal, it is piopable that fomc impurity] (as a proportion of fulphur in the iron larger than ordinary, or of bitumen in fome pieces of charcoal not well burned) might have produced that air, which the patient felt not to be of the right fort.
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