Thomas Beddoes
British doctor
Died when: 48 years 255 days (584 months)Star Sign: Aries
Thomas Beddoes (13 April 1760 – 24 December 1808) was an English physician and scientific writer.He was born in Shifnal, Shropshire and died in Bristol fifteen years after opening his medical practice there.
He was a reforming practitioner and teacher of medicine, and an associate of leading scientific figures.He worked to treat tuberculosis.
Beddoes was a friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and, according to E.S.Shaffer, an important influence on Coleridge's early thinking, introducing him to the higher criticism.
The poet Thomas Lovell Beddoes was his son.A painting of him by Samson Towgood Roch is in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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