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.

  • Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808.
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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.

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    from its higher temperature and the greater quantity of water it holds diffblved, probably contains in an equal bulk rather lefs oxygene than in more temperate regions. » 3. In the florid Confumption, I think I have lately remarked, before the period of extreme debility and emaciation, a much greater acutenefs of the fenfes than is ufual in health. Soon after I became acquainted with the effect of placing upon the tongue a bit of lead in contact with a bit of filver, or of placing one under and one above the tongue and then connecting them by a conduc- tor of electricity, I defired each perfon in a pretty large company to repeat the experiment upon himfelf. To fome the fubacid tafte was not fenlible, others could perceive it diftin&ly ; one perfon prefent was in a confirmed Con- fumption ; and fcarce ha.d he applied the two metals to his tongue, than he put them out of his mouth with figns of difguft, declaring the acid tafte to be fo difagreeably ftrong as nearly to fet