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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    oe find the extremities, efpecially the feet, to be habitually cold, almoft to infenfibility; oxygene, I think, would give life and aétivity to the re- moteft abforbents, and prevent a frefh accumu- lation of water. Indeed I fufpeét that in con- - fequence of this operation it will be found the moft powerful and falutary of all diuretics. 4. In Diabetes, may not an addition of the acidifying principle to the blood correét the tendency of the kidneys to fecrete faccharine urine; and hence cure this infrequent but fatal difeafe ? 5. I am not without hopes of liver from too free a mode of life. In one inftance where rednefs of the nofe alternated with heavy internal pain about the region of the liver, the natural colour of the nofe has been for fome time permanent and the pain has difappeared; but a fufficient interval has not elapfed, fince thefe changes took place, for any decifive opinion to be given upon the cafe. 6. In ill-conditioned Ulcers, efpecially H of