Beddoes
THOMAS, an English phy- 13, 1760; educated at Oxford, London, and Edinburgh . doctor's degree and visiting Paris, he and Edinburgh. After taking his was appointed Professor of Chemistry at Oxford. There he published some exvations" on the calculus, sea scurvy, con- cellent chemical treatises, and "Obsercellent chemical treatises, es, and "Obsersumption, catarrh, and fever. His expressed sympathy with the French revolutionists led to his retirement from his professorship in 1792, soon after which Nature of Demonstrative Evidence," and he published his "Observations on the the exceedingly popular "History of sister of Maria Edgeworth; and in 1798, Isaac Jenkins." In 1794 he married a with the pecuniary aid of Wedgwood, opened a "pneumatic" institution for curhalation of gases. It speedily became an ing phthisical and other diseases by ining phthisical and other diseases by inordinary hospital, but was noteworthy as connected with the discovery of the properties of nitrous oxide, and as having been superintended by ing been superintended by the young Beddoes' essays on "Consumption" (1779 ), and on "Fever" had a high contemporary repute. He (1807), and his "Hygeia " (3 vols., 1807), died Dec. 24, 1808.
BEDE BEDE or BÆDA, the greatest figure in ancient English literature, was born near Monkwearmouth, Durham, about 673. Left an orphan at the age of six, he was educated in the Benedictine Abbey at Monkwearmouth, and entered the monastery of Jarrow, where he was ordained priest in his 30th year. His industry was enormous. Bede wrote homilies, lives of saints, hymns, epigrams, works on grammar and chronology, and the great "Ecclesiastical History of England," in five books, gleaned from native chronicles and oral tradition.
This was translated from Latin into Anglo-Saxon by King Alfred. The first editions were issued from Strassburg in the 15th century. He died in the monastery of Jarrow, May 26, 735.