Considerations on the medicinal use of factitious airs and on the manner of obtaining them / [Thomas Beddoes].

  • Thomas Beddoes
Date:
[1794?]-1796
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Considerations on the medicinal use of factitious airs and on the manner of obtaining them / [Thomas Beddoes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Silver Hall, Ifleworth, Fan. 12, 1765. DEAR SIR, I SHOULD be very much wanting in pete! did I not exprefs to you the very great obligation I feel myfelf under for the benefit my mother has received during the fhort time fhe has been under the care of the furgeon, whom you recommended. Some months previous to her attendance on Mr. Hill, the had had the advice of one of the firft phyficians in town, but fo far from receiving benefit from his prefcriptions, they feemed to aggravate her complaint. You may therefore gue{s my fatisfaétion on obferving the very great alteration produced for the better, by means of the vital air. Before, fhe was in violent and almof continual pain; fo much fo, that fhe could have no reft at night ; all that pain is entirely removed, and fhe now fleeps as found as ever. Before, her ftomach loathed the moft innocent food ; now fhe eats indiffer- ently of any thing, and that with pleafure and fatisfac- tion toherfelf. Her great dificulty in breathing, which more pecultdrly oppreffed her at night is wholly re- moved, for fhe now breathes with the utmoft eafe and freedom. Indeed the alteration is truly extraordinary, and whenit is confidered, that this change has been ef- feéted in lefs than three weeks, and during weather unufually fevere, alfo on a perfon approaching 7o years of age, whofe health had been long on the de- ‘cline, it muft be looked upon as the more wonderful, { make not the leaft doubt, but that fo powerful an agent, asthe vital air, will be produétive of the greateft good to laer, as well as many others. With the fin- cereft acknowledgments for the bencfit fhe has already received and many fincere wifhes of future fuccefs, ] have the honour to be, Dear Bir: Your very obliged humble Servant, GEORGE BARKER,
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