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Birmingham, Printed by Thomas Pearson, 1795, 8°, VIII, 49, (1) pp., 3 gefalt. Tafeln; Birmingham, Th. Pearson, 1796, 8°, (2), 47, (1) pp., 2 Tafeln, feiner Halblederband mit Rvg. und Rückenschild; feines Exemplar. Rare - The 'Second Edition', is the first separate edition, first published as second part in Beddoes, Thomas & Watt, James: 'Considerations on the Factitious Airs .' in 1794, and the 'Supplement to the Description of a Pneumatic Apparatus' in first edition. Contents: Description of an Pneumatic Apparatus; General Directions for the use of the Apparatus; 3.: General Cautions; Directions for Procouring the Airs; Miscellaneous Observartions. Supplement Contents: Description of a Simplified Pneumatic Apparatus; Description of a Portable Apparatus; Postscript; Observations upon the Hydro-carbonate & Oxygene Air; Ad by Boulton & Watt, of Soho, near Birmingham; Addition to the Supplement, &c.; Directions for Using the Apparatus. The discovery of oxygen by Joseph Priestley in the late eighteenth century caused many physicians to attribute many diseases either to a lack or excess of oxygen, or to some modifications of this theory. Of this group, one of the most notable was Dr. Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808), of Shropshire, who founded the Pneumatic Institute at Clifton in 1798 for the treatment of disease by inhalation. Watt was employed to design and construct the apparatus and in 1790 Watt invented the gasometer. The essays by Beddoes and Watt On Factitious Airs (1794-1796) advance the important therapeutic concept of treating certain diseases by placing the patient in a factitious atmosphere, and their general plan of treating respiratory troubles by inhalations of different gasses was revived by Louis Waldenburg in his apparatus for differential pneumotherapy in 1873. Watt had an interest in the development of pneumatic medicine. On 7th December 1794, he wrote to his friend, Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society Mankind has been long enough occasionally poisoned by the channel of the lungs, let us try if we cannot receive medicines by the same way. cf. Watt's papers, Birmingham City Library. "The most important contribution to the study of therapeutic inhalation was made by Thomas Beddoes. . The designs of the apparatus were prepared in the summer of 1794, and Watt wrote to Beddoes 'I send you with this , drawings of my apparatus for producing and receiving the various airs which may be supposed to be useful in Medicine." Barbara M. Duncum, The Development of Inhalation Anaesthesia (1847), pp.64-70 ( 2 pages description of Watt's apparatus). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 53878
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