Considerations on the medicinal use and on the production of factitious airs / by Thomas Beddoes, M.D. : part II ; by James Watt, engineer .... ; to which are added communications from Doctors Carmichael, Darwin, Ewart, ... and others.

  • Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808.
Date:
1795
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Credit: Considerations on the medicinal use and on the production of factitious airs / by Thomas Beddoes, M.D. : part II ; by James Watt, engineer .... ; to which are added communications from Doctors Carmichael, Darwin, Ewart, ... and others. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( ) “ heat on entering the chamber, with a ftrong fmell of “the candles ; and as heat generally prevents my reft, I “ was pleafantly dlfappointed by a more comfortable “ Deep than I had had for fourteen years before,. I “ have experienced the fame want of good and conti- “ nued fleep fince.” Whether a diminithed atmof- phere produces a tendency to fleep or not, diluted hydrocarbonate fof which the properties can fcarce be fuppofed to depend on privation of oxygene) undoubt- edly pofleffes this property. My experience amply confirms the preceding reports. In two confumptive patients, I am able to induce fleep almoft at pleafure by this air. In a great majority of fuch cafes, it is well known that the nights are exceedingly difturbed in fpite of opium, freely adminiftered. The foporific virtue of hydrocarbonate, feems however by no means to be confined to confumption. ' I introduce here the following letter refpeffing confumption, from Mr. Darling, Pref. ot the R. M. Soc. at Edinburgh. It did not come in time for infertion in its proper place. Mr. D. does not feem to have ufed hydrocarbonate air. Edinburgh, Feb. 24th, 1795. vSiR, The cafe to which I alluded in my letter was fimply this.—A young lady labouring under every fymptom of confirmed phthifis pulmonalis, and daily finking under the difeafe, happened to be refiding at the houfe of an eminent tar merchant to whom Ihe was related. No remedy feeming in the leaft degree efficacious, it was propofed that flie fhould walk in one of his ware- hpufes, where a large quantity of plantation tar was ufually