May 23, 2013 - Sale 2316

Sale 2316 - Lot 36

Price Realized: $ 2,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
DAVY, HUMPHRY. Autograph Letter Signed, "H. Davy," to James Smithson ("My dear Sir"), responding to his question concerning the treatment of tuberculosis, and advising him to look to Paris as such remedies originate in France. 2 1/2 pages, 4to, with integral address leaf; folds. "23 Gros[veno]r Street" [London], 16 January [1821]
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"I wish I could give you any satisfactory information respecting the application of Hydrogen in pulmonary consumption. Dr. Beddon[?] I think tried it; but . . . without any beneficial effects. . . . Much is written here concerning the use of prussic acid in phthisis; but as the remedy comes from your side of the water, the details must be better known at Paris than in London. . . ."