Selected Writings
Besides the writings mentioned above, Beddoes was also associated with the following:
- Chemical Essays by Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1786) translator
- An Account of some Appearances attending the Conversion of cast into malleable Iron. In a Letter from Thomas Beddoes, M. D. to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. P.R.S. (Phil. Trans. Royal Society, 1791)
- Observations on the Nature and Cure of Calculus, Sea Scurvy, Consumption, Catarrh, and Fever (1793)
- Observations on the nature of demonstrative evidence, with an explanation of certain difficulties occurring in the elements of geometry, and reflections on language (1793)
- Political Pamphlets (1795–1797)
- Contributions to Physical and Medical Knowledge, principally from the West of England (1799). In this work (p. 4), Beddoes makes the first recorded use of the word Biology in its modern sense.
- Essay on Consumption (1799)
- Essay on Fever (1807)
- Hygeia, or Essays Moral and Medical (1807)
Beddoes also edited the second edition of John Brown's Elements of Medicine (1795).
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