biography
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| lived:
| (1760–1808)
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| biography:
| Physician and writer, born in Shifnal, Shropshire, WC England, UK. He studied medicine and became reader in chemistry at Oxford, but his sympathies with the French Revolution led to his resignation (1792). From 1798 to 1801 he developed at Clifton (Bristol) a ‘pneumatic institute’ for the cure of diseases by the inhalation of gases, with Humphry Davy his assistant. |
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