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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    flimptive people is, that they may at the fame time perfift in any plan of medicine or diet, which theirfelves or their friends fof them are folicitous to purfue, without interfer- ing with your remedy which is immediately applied to the feat of the difeafe, and the ulce- rations of the lungs. Go on, dear Sir, fave the young and the fair ©f the fifing generation from premature death; and refcue the fcience of medicine from its greateft opprobrium. Your's, &c. To E. DARWIN. Dr. Beddoes. P. S. Dr. Wood of Newcaftle has juft publifhed a theory of Typhus, varying but in terms from that which I had before given in the book £0 often quoted. He thinks that typhus is produced by the accumulation or over-pro- portion of carbone and hydrogene, and an exhauftcd ftate « of irritability. I fufpeft that fuch an accumulation would require more time than the production of this fever 12 ever