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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    J the work, entitled Medicine pernicious to Sod. dy (a); but if you limit the queftion to the paft and the prefent, aad comprehend praftitioners of all titles and of both fexes, I dare not deny that for one pang that has been eafed, an hund- red have been inflifted; for one life that has. been preferved, twenty have been deftroyed* It would not therefore have been afufficient reafon for abandoning elaftic fluids in defpair, if in cafes where there was no chance of other help, fome fufpicious circumftances had arifen after their ufe.—-They have however now been very frequently and largely adminiftered ;'and fometimes in a ftate of debility but juft compa-, tible with life. My attention and enquiries have been particularly direfted to bad^confe- quences. Yet I know only of three inftances, where any inconvenience, more worth confide- ration than the ordinary effedl of an emetic, has been experienced. In the worft of thefe I had the mortification to be concerned ; it is the cafe of epileptic affeQion related in my ColkBion of Letters. The patient is now as before the infpiration of the modified air; nor has any thing worth mentioning occurred in the mean time. Of the other cafes Dr. Carmichael gives an accurate report p. 69-72 : A 2 There tiulfible d la Socictc; by Dr. Gilibert, a Medical Piofcfror t>f MontpcIUet.