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1793 T. Beddoes Let. to E. Darwin 59 We owe to Pneumatic Chemistry the command of the elements which compose animal substances;..it is the business of Pneumatic Medicine to apply them with caution and intelligence.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 571 When pneumatic medicine was at the height of its popularity, much benefit was supposed to be derived from the use of oxygene and hydrogene gasses [in asthma].

1847 Brit. & Foreign Med. Rev. 23 566 Pneumatic Medicine has never been productive of great practical benefits.

1911 Science 11 Aug. 161/2 The discovery of hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and nitrous oxide—pneumatic chemistry, as it were—created a field of pneumatic medicine.

1996 Hist. European Ideas 220 296 He [sc. Thomas Beddoes] was a ‘brilliant physician’, who spearheaded the discovery of anesthesia with his creative medical experiments in ‘pneumatic medicine’.