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.

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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    f might furnifh an exception. Being already provided, as I fuppofe them to be, with a larger proportion of that principle which refpi- ration introduces into the body, they rnuft be able to continue for a longer time without the neceffity of a new fupply. And as the left cavities of the heart feem to be more irritable in fuch patients, it is probable that they would be more eafrly recoverable from accidents of this kind, than perfons in an ordinary (late of health. This confequence of my theory is much countenanced by the fubjoirted cafe of the fon of our common acquaintance, Mr. Crump, furgeon and apothecary at Albrighton, in Shropfhire. You will find that he not only breathed with eafe air of a very low ftandard, but that he even much preferred it to atmof- phcric air. But I do not. pretend to fay that this fa6t decifively proves the greater indepen- danee of cbnfumptive perfons on the function of refpiration. The air he infpired was partly hydrogene air. And it feems pretty well ascer- tained