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English physician Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808)

Pencil drawing by Edward Bird (1772-1819). In 1799, Beddoes established the Pneumatic Institution (also referred to as Pneumatic Institute), a medical research facility in Bristol, England, to study the medical effects of gases, known as "factitious airs," among which was carbon monoxide. (Courtesy of the Wellcome Collection, London, England. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en. Rematted.)

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