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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    Observations oii this Case by Dr. Thorntok. 1. THIS patient in early times had led rather a tree life, and of late he could not get to fleep unlefs he took, d certain portion of wine in * the day. Does not this cafe, therefore, confirm your opinion refpefting the efFefts of vinous liquors, and did not the hydrogenous principle which abounded in his fyftem raanifefl. itfelt by the humour covering his face ? 2. As the fame quantity of liquor was taken as be- fore, and only three fix-ounce phials of bark with myrrh, may we not afcribe this cure chiefly to the ar- tificial oxygenation of the fyftem ? 3. As the body abounded in hydrogene, a larger proportion than ufual of the oxygene air was given this patient, and it produced at the time a ftrong per- fpiration, and feemed, as he exprefled it, to fearch every part of his body, 4. When the relapfe occurred, he took an oxyd of ' of mercury, and the oxygenation of the fyftem through this means produced the fame effeft ; but as being produflive of naufea, and violent griping ; is not the oxygenation of the blood by the lungs, a more elegant and preferable mode ? My patient obferved, that while taking the vital air his ftrength was increafed, but when under the courfe of mercury it was greatly diminifhed. Observations by Dr. Thornton, on the latter part of Dr. Pearson AS the public are fo eafily prejudiced againft new remedies, and wifli ever to be cured by inert fubflances, afling