350 RETROGRADE ABSORBENTS. SECT, XXIX. i. 



DR. BEDDOES very ingenioufly concludes, from 

 the florid colour of the blood of ccnfurnptive pati- 

 ents, that it abounds in oxygene ; and that the 

 rednefs of their tongues and lips, and the fine blufb 

 of their cheeks fliew the prefence of the fame prin- 

 ciple, like flefh reddened by nitre. And adds, 

 that the eircumftance of the confumptions of preg- 

 nant women being (lopped in their progrefs during 

 ' pregnancy, at which time their blood may be fup- 

 pofed to be in part deprived of its oxygene, by 

 oxygenating the blood of the fcetus, is a forcible 

 argument in favour of this theory ; which muft 

 foon be confirmed or confuted by his experiments. 

 See EiTay on Scurvy, Confumption, &c. by Dr. 

 Beddoes. Murray. London. Alfo Letter to Dr, 

 Darwin, by the fame. Murray. London, 



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