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.
Date:
[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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    for near feven weeks with little interruption. I breathed it upon the whole fometimes for twenty minutes, fometimes for half an hour, and fome- times for an hour in the day, but I never con- tinued breathing for above four or five minutes at any one time. I felt, at the time of infpi- ration, that agreeable glow and lightnefs of the cheft, which has been defcribed by Dr. Prieftly and others. In a very fhort time I was fenfible of a much greater flow of fpirits than formerly, and was much more difpofed to mufcular exertion. By degrees, my com- plexion, from an uniform brown, became fairer and fomewhat florid. I perceived a carnation tint at the ends of the fingers, and on all the covered parts of the body the fkin acquired much more of a flem colour than it had before. I was rather fat, but during this procefs I fell away rapidly, my waiftcoats becoming very much too large for me; I was not fenfible however, of any mufcular emaciation, but rather the contrary. My appetite was good; G 2 and