Considerations on the medicinal use, and production of factitious airs. : Part III / by Thomas Beddoes and James Watt.

  • Thomas Beddoes
Date:
1795
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Credit: Considerations on the medicinal use, and production of factitious airs. : Part III / by Thomas Beddoes and James Watt. 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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    sedative virtue in opium, no despumation in the small-pox, no erosive acrimony in pus, no putre- faction of the fluids in any disease, and no vires medicatrices natures in any constitution. Digref- fively, I believe I may have thrown out fome ftri£tures upon thofe other modern teachers, to whom the world is indebted for the information that there is neither free-will in man, nor phlo- giston in charcoal. Sed kmc missafaciamus—let this bufinefs pafs for the prefent.—Gravius instat—periculum fhall I add ? I mould think the term too grave if I had not feen equally contemptible begin- nings proceed to an iffue, which it gives me a pang to recollect. You thought the difficulty of execution quite fufficient, and that we need not interfere to difcountenance—But you nowT fee the project, extravagant as it is, can hardly be claffed among the dead-born. From what I hear—auribus invitis you may fwear—even at the W eft end of the town, I am apt to apprehend fometimes that it is creeping on and gaining ftrength. I do not argue—arguing on fucha fubject I confider as infra dignitatem. Neither do I de- feend to invective, though my indignation be indeed, at times, held in with difficulty. But did you know all, you would fee that I can b {hike
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