Considerations on the medicinal use, and production of factitious airs. : Part III / by Thomas Beddoes and James Watt.

  • Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808.
Date:
1795
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Credit: Considerations on the medicinal use, and production of factitious airs. : Part III / by Thomas Beddoes and James Watt. 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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    anfwer for it, no experiment is performed on this patient: So much—and enough for example's fake. A great deal more occurs. The topic is fer- tile—but verbum sapienti.—The new pra&ice will be applied to defperate cafes principally ; and as it can never fave all the dying, you may- conceive.we mail have plenty of texts for use- ful comments; for it is always our own fault if thofe who employ new remedies without ef- fect, do not appear to difadvantage, though we can do no better with the old. All depends on the face we put upon the matter. Then you know there is the topic of inexpe- rience—on this we may launch out. We may call aloud for facls, and all the-while reje&any that mall be offered. Naming no names—re- member that—let us ufe ftrong defignations, as speculatists, enthusiasts, high-flyers. Such lan- guage, in the proper tone, will hurry away the mind of the hearer, in fpite both of his previ- ous conviclion and of the guarded terms in which they may have exprelfed themfelves. Befides how eafy is it to fet Rumour at work ! And if we could condefcend to look upon them as adverfaries, what would this be but juft re- taliation ? for you may obferve in their publi- cations an infolent negleft of us, who are at the