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BEDDOES, Thomas (1760 – 1808)

BEDDOES, Thomas (1760 – 1808)

1760 – 1808

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1794 CE

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Considerations on the medicinal use, and on the production of factitious airs and on the manner of obtaining them in large quantities: In two parts.

BEDDOES, Thomas (1760 – 1808)
BEDDOES, Thomas (1760 – 1808)
WATT, James (1736 – 1819)
WATT, James (1736 – 1819)

The engineer James Watt collaborated with the physician, Thomas Beddoes, in this project. This was Watt's only contribution to medicine. While much of Beddoes' work proved ineffective it did result in Humphrey Davy's …