1799 first public notice of pneumatic institute
March 21
Bristol Gazette & public advertiser:
New medical institution.
Upper end of Dowry-Square, Hotwells, corner house.
Treating incurable diseases.
Medical professors at Edinburgh.
Many Physicians in England.
Consumption, Asthma, Palsy, Dropsy, obstinate Venereal Complaints, Scrophula or King's Evil.
Other incurable diseases.
Patients treated gratis.
Expectation:
Considerable portion of cases will be permanently cured.
Methods are not hazardous or painful.
Attendance will be given from 11 till 1 o'clock by Thomas Beddoes or Humphrey Davy.
Subscriptions for support of Institution received by John Savery, Esq., Narrow Wine Street, Bristol.