Matthew Dobson

[11] Dobson died in Bath on 25 July 1784, incidentally on the day of Hester Thrale's second marriage,[12] and was buried at Walcot.

[16] It also cooperated as part of Priestley's attempt to develop "pneumatic therapy": the medical use of newly isolated gases.

[18][19] It did not have a major clinical impact, the findings being still debated until the work of George Owen Rees in the middle of the 19th century.

[20] Dobson observed the sweet taste of the blood of diabetics (caused by hyperglycemia), and argued that the disease was not located in the kidneys, as was believed at the time.

[21] John Rollo cited Dobson in his research of the late 1790s, and established principles for a diabetic diet.

[1] In 1775, Dobson experimented with a heated room as treatment, a line of research already explored by George Fordyce and Charles Blagden.

[27] Dobson was interested in bladder stones from a statistical point of view, too, and gathered data from Norwich Hospital.

[28] In fact he made a wider survey of hospitals and their admissions in the 1779 edition, Norwich having the highest proportion of admitted patients for bladder stone.

Dobson was an associate of Thomas Bentley in the construction of the chapel; and Nicholas Clayton, a classmate from Glasgow, was the first minister.