Who is thomas beddoes

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Sign in via your Institution. You could not be signed in, please check and try again. Sign in with your library card Please enter your library card number. Subjects: Philosophy. All rights reserved. Sign in to annotate. This was just after a mob in Birmingham had burned the home and laboratory of Joseph Priestley, another chemist and sympathizer of French democratic ideals.

Nevertheless, the Pneumatic Institution finally got underway in , and Beddoes was fortunate in his choice of medical superintendent—a very young Humphry Davy. Around , the Pneumatic Institution changed to become a hospital for the poor, which Beddoes operated until ; he passed away in December of that year. The financial backers for all of this deserve a great deal of credit, for the Pneumatic Institution was not a paying concern; Beddoes never charged his patients a fee.

We have always found it odd that Beddoes was not included among the Perhaps bad feelings toward the French Revolution still lingered. William B. Ashworth, Jr. Comments or corrections are welcome; please direct to ashworthw umkc.