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

  • Thomas Beddoes
Date:
1795
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Credit: Considerations on the medicinal use, and on the production of factitious airs / by Thomas Beddoes. Part II / by 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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    To Mr. WATT. DEAR SIR, will probably be startled when you read your name on the page destined to dedication; but I cannot prevail -upon myself to- send these Considerations a second time abroad^ without acknowledging my satisfaction in having hadyou for a fellow labourer. To establish a new department in Medicine, would have exceeded my single strength ,\.and I da not know any person who could have afforded me such effectual assistance as you have done, ■ That the pneumatic practice is beginning to acquire the cer- tainly of a genuine art, may be too bold a thing for me to assert; but if this should prove to be tlie case, I need not explain how much it is indebted ■ to yon for the rapidity of its progress, the means of judging being fully before the public. The zeal how- ever with which y.ou exerted your talents to do good, could be wit- nessed but by a few j and it is particularly incumbent on me ta return thanks both to you and Mr. Boulton, for so liberally consenting, at my earnest request, to manufacture your air-appa- ratus. The profits were ncvc.r'likely 'to requite any man—much less persons engaged in. such extensive concerns—-for theexpence and vexation a'ways occasioned by a new branch of business. ' Though you have succeeded so far as to enable any one, who chooses, to procure elastic, fluids zoith perfect, ease, and in the utmost abundance, I hope yon will not entirely abandon the subject;. By turning your thoughts to it from time to time, you will not fail to help us forward, by some useful hint, or happy invention. ' hi Of
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