From Thomas Beddoes to the Editors of The Medical and Physical Journal   March 1799

Gentlemen,

In an article of your first Number, in which the Author is pleased to speak of me in relation to Mayow, he confounds the two Scherers – one of whom wrote against Dr. Ferro, on the Use of the Vital Air; and also published an Analysis of Mayow; – while the other, the chemist of Jena, proposed to translate my Abridgment, (see the Annales de Chimie,) but now intends to translate Mayow, and to add an Appendix. The former is usually called Scherer of Vienna. Whether this Scherer, or myself, first drew notice towards Mayow, is a question of total indifference to me.

Thomas Beddoes

Clifton, March, 1799.