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

  • Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808.
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[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 / by Thomas Beddoes, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    oedematous fwelling of the feet from weak- ness, came on. You know what has been written on this variety of Confu.mption, and for the prefent I mall content myfelf with referring readers, not fo well informed, to Huxham (t) Chalmers (/) Duncan (g) and Macbride (h). Several years ago a firm perfuafion fet- tled upon my mind that the fyftem might be as powerfully and as varioufly affe&ed by means of the lungs as of the ftomach. And the more knowledge we have acquired of the properties of elaftic fluids, the more has my opinion been ftrengthened. Of all the fun&ions,. Refpiration is, I think, the beft underftood ; and it will alfo be found in fkilful hands to be the moft eafily manageable. It is impoffible.to doubt that we are nourished by the lungs as truly as by the ftomach 3 and that what we take in at the for- D 2 mer (f) De aere and morbis. {f) Difeafcs of South Carolina. [g) Medical cafes. {h) Theory and Praaice of Phyfic.—See alfo De Haen R. M. xv.