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See also:BEDDOES, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1760-1808) , See also:English physician and scientific writer, was See also:born at Shiffnall in See also:Shropshire on the 13th of See also:April 176o. After being educated at See also:Bridgnorth See also:grammar school and at See also:Pembroke See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, he studied See also:medicine in See also:London under See also:John See also:Sheldon (1752-1808). In 1784 he published a See also:translation of L. See also:Spallanzani's See also:Dissertations on Natural See also:History, and in 1785 produced a translation, with See also:original notes, of T. O. See also:Bergman's Essays on Elective Attractions. He took his degree of See also:doctor of medicine at Oxford in 1786, and, after visiting See also:Paris, where he became acquainted with See also:Lavoisier, was appointed reader in See also:chemistry at Oxford University in 1788. His lectures attracted large and appreciative audiences; but his sympathy with the See also:French Revolution exciting a clamour against him, he resigned his readership in 1792. In the following See also:year he published Observations on the Nature of See also:Demonstrative See also:Evidence, and the History of See also:Isaac See also:Jenkins, a See also:story which powerfully exhibits the evils of See also:drunkenness, and of which 40,000 copies are reported to have been sold. About the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he began to See also:work at his project for the See also:establishment of a " Pneumatic Institution " for treating disease by the inhalation of different gases. In this he was assisted by See also:Richard See also:Lovell See also:Edgeworth, whose daughter, See also:Anna, became his wife in 1794. In 1798 the institution was established at See also:Clifton, its first See also:superintendent being See also:Humphry See also:Davy, who investigated the properties of nitrous See also:oxide in its laboratory. The original aim of the institution was gradually abandoned; it became an See also:ordinary sick-See also:hospital, and was relinquished by its projector in the year before his See also:death, which occurred on the 24th of See also:December ,8o8. Beddoes was a See also:man of See also:great See also:powers and wide acquirements, which he directed to See also:noble and philanthropic purposes. He strove to effect social See also:good by popularizing medical knowledge, a work for which his vivid See also:imagination and glowing eloquence eminently fitted him. Be-sides the writings mentioned above, he was the author of See also:Political See also:Pamphlets (1795-1797), a popular See also:Essay on See also:Consumption (1799), which won the admiration of See also:Kant, an Essay on See also:Fever (1807), and Hygeia, or Essays Moral and Medical (1807). He also edited John See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown's Elements of Medicine (1795), and Contributions to See also:Physical and Medical Knowledge, principally from the See also:West of See also:England (1799).
A See also:life of Beddoes by Dr John E. Stock was published in 181o.
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