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Beddoes, Thomas 1760-1808
English physician and writer

Born in Shifnal, he studied medicine and became Reader in Chemistry at Oxford, but his sympathies with the French Revolution led to his resignation (1792). From 1798 to 1801 he developed at Clifton (near Bristol) a 'pneumatic institute' for the cure of diseases by the inhalation of gases, with Humphry Davy his assistant. He wrote on political, social, and medical subjects and edited the works of John Brown, founder of the Brunonian movement.