Considerations on the medicinal use, and production of factitious airs. : Part III / by Thomas Beddoes and James Watt.

  • Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808.
Date:
1795
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Credit: Considerations on the medicinal use, and production of factitious airs. : Part III / by Thomas Beddoes and James Watt. 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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    friends told me had done fuch extraordinary things in medicine and furgery. I conceived that as the appli- cation was to the feat pf the difeafe, it promifed more than mull other remedies, and accordingly about ten months back I began the inhalation of this air. Dr. Thornton approved of the plan of medicine I was pur- fuing, which was, bitters to ftrengthen the fyftem, and as occafion might require, a warm laxative pill ; thefe were therefore continued. After a few weeks' trial of this new mode of treatment by the vital air, the above medicines being continued, my ftrength was fo far recruited, that from my own reckoning, I could walk upwards of two miles; my ancles did not pit ; my breathing was relieved; my appetite improved and my countenance fo much mended ; that all my friends, together with my phyfician, congratu- lated me on my recovery. I was able to pay my refpe£ts to his Majefty, who complimented me much on my good looks, and made many inquiiies refpe£l> ing the vital air. I was enabled regularly to attend the Board. But I had to battle through fuch a winter, as few at my time of life have been able to fupport. The influenza, which was general, was a great drawback to my full refloration, as the vital air was obliged to be defifted from at that time, and re- courfe was had to evacuants, cooling medicines, blif- ters, cupping, and a low diet. But this, together with feveral colds, that have occafionally attacked me, has, in my mind, only manifefted the more the efficacy of the vital air in my complaint, for as foon as it has been judged prudent to have again recourfe to the vital air, the fymptoms that had gained ground during the inter- miflion, have been as conftantly fubdued, and my friend Dr. Turton has told me, that I could not do better ?' than