Observations on the nature and cure of calculus, sea scurvy, consumption, catarrh, and fever : together with conjectures upon several other subjects of physiology and pathology / by Thomas Beddoes, M.D.

  • Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808.
Date:
1793
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    The want of fome certain method of efc, feding this will, perhaps, produce fome doubt in the reader's mind refpecting the certain efficacy of an hyper-roxygenated at-r mofphere in typhus; but the few imper^ fed trials that have hitherto been made upon the refpiration of oxygene air, feem to me to more than counterbalance this doubt. The experiments of IVfr. Fourcroy, the bell upon record, feern to promife 4he happieft fuccefs. Attention is undoubtedly not lefs due to the otljer elements of organized bodies and if the importance of oxygene feems to have been magnified in the foregoing ob-=r fervations, it is only becaufe we have few or no facts which afford a foundation for rea- foning concerning the connection pf an excefs. or deficiency of hydrogene orazotp with the functions of life : and yet much ohfcuqty and many difficulties muft be expe&ed to remain, till we acquire the knowledge of fuch facts. This reflection mould render us only the more attentive to the pheno- mena