Events: detail
Thomas Beddoes, Doctor of Enlightenment
- Speaker:
- None listed
- Starts:
- December 12, 2008 at 03:15 pm
- Ends:
- December 12, 2008 at 03:15 pm
- Location:
- Royal Society, Kohn Centre, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG United Kingdom
- Maps:
Description
A one-day conference organised in conjunction with the Centre for Life Writing Research, King’s College London.
Dr Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808) was one of the most remarkable figures in the history of British medicine. Part of a group of radical physicians friendly with Erasmus Darwin and the Lunar Circle in the early 1790s, he set up the Pneumatic Institution near Bristol where he attempted cures using newly-discovered combinations of gases. The then-unknown Humphry Davy superintended trials, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge was among his patients.
This conference marks the bicentenary of Beddoes’s death. Speakers will include Trevor Levere, Larry Stewart, Mike Jay, George Rousseau, Giuliano Pancaldi, Iwan Morus, Neil Vickers and Jane Darcy.
- Registration required:
- Yes
- Free:
- No
Additional information
Registration is now open, at a fee of £15, or £10 concession (students/retired/unwaged)
For more information
- Contact person:
- Felicity Henderson
- Phone:
- 02074512597
- Email:
- felicity.henderson [ at ] royalsociety.org
- Website:
- Thomas Beddoes, Doctor of Enlightenment
