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.

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    was entirely removed. This I found to be the cafe when I faw her three days ago—flie fleeps well, and her pulfe is full and regular. In the beginning of this cafe the extreme urgency of the fymptoms induced me to ufe attive remedies along with the hydro-carbonate, and it certainly did not impede their falutary operation. In the latter ftage it had no afliftance. Could demulcents, expectorants, or antifpafmodics, either fingly or conjoined, have done more ? Could they have done as much ? I remain, dear Sir, Your's, &c. JOHN BARR> To Dr. Beddoes. Letter from Dr. Darwin to Dr. Beddoes. Derby, Aug. 12, 1795. DEAR DOCTOR, IN recording the efficacy of new medicines, cafes in which they do not fucceed are ufeful as well as thofe in which they do. Mr. W , about 60 years of age, was afflifted with hydrothorax, which had been gradually increafing for about two years; he had been fix or feven times relieved by taking tin&ure of fox-glove. He breathed about eight gallons of oxygene gas, from Exeter man- ganefe, every day for about a week ; it was at firft di- luted with about equal parts of atmofpheric air, but he took it after a day or two undiluted, unlefs by the fmall quantity