1799

Thomas Beddoes to Matthew Robinson Boulton, 27 June 1799

29 June 1799

Dear Sir

I have just received your very obliging letter, by which I am exceedingly gratified. –

If it fell in your way to procure any new or curious mineral, of which you could spare a piece I should be glad of it – I have thoughts of requesting my friend Mr R. Edwards, to lay out some money in fossils for me from time to time –

Davy goes on very successfully making preparatory experiments for the pneumatic Instⁿ – We have new & great prospects opening before us & I think by the time of your return we shall have realized some of them. Why cannot you take a bed – it shall be well aired – at N^o 3 Rodney Place? – We should be able to show you some curious things –

The plan of treating consumption by digitalis answers extremely well in cases where tubercules are formed but not yet suppurated – likewise in the first stages of confirmed consumption And we have several examples where it has effected a cure at a <much> more advanced period.

In the lectures I intend to try to fill up a plan, of which you may possibly have seen the outline in an Introd^y Lecture published 2 years ago.

I hope to assure a numerous audience by putting the admission so very low, that this consideration will exclude nobody.

I am
Dear Sir
Yours thankfully

Thomas Beddoes

Address: R. Boulton Esq / Truro / Cornwall
Endorsement: Dr Beddoes / June 27^th / 1799 // Wish to have my new Cornish minerals. – Successful experiments at the Pneumatic Institⁿ Cure of consumptⁿ &c effected by the digitalis / Discoveries of Davey / Invitation to his house
MS: LoB MS 3782/13/8/20