ABSTRACT
In full-time medical practice from 1793 till his death fifteen years later, Beddoes acquired enlarged face-to-face experience with a broad band of sufferers. During those years, he produced a stream of works addressed to reforming medicine. Unlike some contemporaries who were primarily concerned with re organizing the statutory basis o f the professional super structure, Beddoes principally sought to improve health care at the contact point o f clinical relations, and, more broadly, to revitalize medicine as an engine o f social improvement.
