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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    1772, elk doit convulfive sans crachats; die augmenta au mois de Mai: il survint quclques crachats un peu sanguinolens; & des frisson- nemens au dos, &c. &c. I fuppofe this kind of cough muft occur in but a fmall proportion of cafes : otherwife it would be more diflin&lv defcribed, and be the fubjecl; of more fpecula- tion in books than we find to be. From my own obfervations I fufpeCl this cough to be produced by the fame irritating caufe (as tuber- cles, for inftance) which produces the fhort, dry cough or whatever other cough may happen in any given cafe to be the forerunner of Confumption. Upon the moft attentive examination I could difcover no other caufe of irritation. And can you not allow your- felf to conceive that fome, and that perhaps a fmall alteration in the power of the caufe or in the habit of the patient, may produce fuch changes in the adion of the mufcles, or of the ftimulus that excites them to a6l ?