Thomas Beddoes to ?Erasmus Darwin, [24/25/26] December 1793 (2)
‘It appeared to me,’ says he, in a letter written immediately after her departure, ‘that it would be more practicable to determine the medical effects of elastic fluids in one year, if we had from six to twelve patients in a house with the apparatus, than in twelve years of private practice. Six or seven hundred pounds would provide so many with air and food, and support all expences. Bad as the times are could not one find benevolent people enough to assist in the execution of so grand a design?
Published: Stock, pp. 100–1