Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Thomas Beddoes NPG D8257

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Charles Warren, published by John Samuel Murray, after Edward Bird

Beddoes studied medicine in London and Edinburgh, taking up a lecturing post at Oxford University in 1788. His open adherence to radical politics cost him an endowed chair in Chemistry, he was forced to resign under government pressure in 1792. Branded a dangerous and violent democrat he moved to Bristol, founding the Pneumatic Institution for Inhalation Gas Therapy in 1798, his experiments here with his assistant Humphry Davy were influential in advancing anesthesia techniques and remedies for respiratory disorders. Beddoes opposed self-medication, promoting greater... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.