Thomas Beddoes to the Editors of The Medical and Physical Journal, 14 September 1801
Gentlemen,
A temporary inability to use my eyes freely, and some other circumstances, oblige me to postpone my intended popular Essays to the beginning of December, after which, as far as depends on me, they will proceed regularly. I do not regret this delay, as it gives me the opportunity of addressing to practitioners of medicine, and to other observers of human life, the following request: If they have any facts likely to promote the public health, whether respecting quack medicines, or of any other description which they think suitable to my plan, I should be much obliged by the communication of them. I could wish to be authorized to use the name of my correspondent, as a voucher for the facts; but, at all events, I must be satisfied myself of their reality. I am, &c.
T. Beddoes
Clifton, Sept. 14, 1801.
Published: The Medical and Physical Journal, 6 (October 1801), 362