From Thomas Beddoes to James Watt   30 July 1796

I have no answer to my letter respecting an apparatus for Mr Coutts, who waits with patience – Any information respecting airs, which you can austreiben for me among the medical men at Birm^m will be agreeable – I wish you & Mr Boulton w^d remove Soho as near to Bristol as it is to Birm^m to supply me with medical articles –

Since I saw you I have got a <bad liver> case successfully treated by apposition of cold – I am now going to try this plan on a large scale, for the diversity of patients will enable me to do it –

I think already it has been highly useful to a pneumatic patient, who is recovering fast from a state I will not say of confirmed consumption but near to it, as the gross expectⁿ, cough, pulse, hectic, emaciation & pearly eye with red fauces indicated. I intended to attack the <morbid> heat with cold & the cold with heat; but the latter regularly done rendered the first needless – I care not how soon I have your last pamphlet, & I sh^d be glad also, if you w^d tell how air may be advantageously condensed & give a sketch – I am your obliged & grateful friend

T.B.