Thomas Beddoes
1760-1808
English physician who explored therapeutic uses of gas inhalation and befriended chemist Humphry Davy. After medical school in Edinburgh, Scotland, Beddoes returned to England...
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While Thomas Beddoes is mainly remembered as the sponsor of Humphry Davy and as a friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, his career as a medical doctor was shaped by strong democratic principles and a vig...
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