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.
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 / by Thomas Beddoes, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    Since my Apparatus has been at all fit for ufe, I have employed hydrogene air in one pulmonic cafe; and the refult has been fatisfactory. A perfon of fair complexion and dark eyes had been for fome time paft fubjeft to attacks of hsemoptyfis attended with dyfpncea, fevere coughing, and pain in the thorax. On a late feizure of this kind I advifed the ufe of modified air. The pulfe was hard, from an hun- dred and four to an hundred and eight. The countenance much flufhed; the fkin dry and hot, with confiderable febrile rigour. All her feelings the fame as at the commencement of former feizures. She began by breathing three hundred and fifty-fix cubic inches of air; of which forty-four (nearly one-eighth) we hy- drogene from fleam and red hot iron. This quantity {fie confirmed in fifteen minutes. When fhe fat down to infpire, fhe had very acute pain under the fternum ; which entirely fub- fided while fhe was breathing. The pain after- wards returned, but with lefs violence; and upon