Thomas Beddoes to William Reynolds, [?24/25/26 December] 1793
On the subject of his pneumatic establishment he observes, ‘that some unforeseen difficulties must always attend a scheme where all is novel’; but he still indulges the expectation that those friends whose liberality enabled him to commence his inquiries in this particular branch of medicine, would be reimbursed. At the same time, he expresses his consciousness that they would be fully satisfied without such return, provided the grand object in view, a diminution of the evils which afflict humanity, were effected. He announces his intention of preparing, with their permission, a full account of all his experiments, with drawings of the apparatus; in order to put it in the power of every philosophical member of the medical profession, to make similar experiments, and to verify or confute their results.
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