A letter to Erasmus Darwin, M.D. on a new method of treating pulmonary consumption, and some other diseases hitherto found incurable ... / [Thomas Beddoes].

  • Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808
Date:
1793]
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Credit: A letter to Erasmus Darwin, M.D. on a new method of treating pulmonary consumption, and some other diseases hitherto found incurable ... / [Thomas Beddoes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lee fuggefted to me the idea of meat reddened by faltpetre. The eyes, too,-in fuch cafes are remarkable for their vivacity. The blood, dif- charged by Epiftaxis or Hemoptyfis, has a colour evidently more florid than ufual. In the latter indeed, which in healthy perfons is a rare occurrence, we have not many oppor- tunities of remarking this difference in the colour of the blood, but in the fpontaneous bleedings of the nofe that fo frequently take place both in incipient and confirmed Phthifis, we fee the blood much brighter than when tt flows from healthy perfons, in confequence of accidental violence. It is not my intention to repeat either what I have myfelf written concerning the hyperoxy- genated {tate of the fyftem in Confumption, or to tranfcribe from elementary books, a detail of the ordinary progrefs of the fymptoms. But you will think it not improbable, from the attention I have been lately paying to this diforder, and the opinion I entertain concern- ing