Thomas Beddoes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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British doctor
Date of Birth: 13-Apr-1760
Place of Birth: Shropshire, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 24-Dec-1808
Profession: physician
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Thomas Beddoes
- 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.
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- 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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