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Letter XX. Hospitals.
obstructing the ventilation, would rather, as it should seem, assist it, encreasing
the force of the current by the compressure. It should seem also, that
to a circular building the central lodge would thus give the same aptitude to
ventilation, which the Doctor's oval form possesses of itself.
To save his patients from catching cold, while the current is
passing through the room, the Doctor allows to each a short screen, like
the head of a cradle, to be rested on the bed.
Here the use of the tin speaking-tubes would be seen again,
in the means they would afford to the patient, though he were equal to no
more than a whisper, of conveying to the Lodge the most immediate notice
of his wants, and receiving answers in a tone equally unproductive
of disturbance.
Something I could have wished to say, on the important
difference between the general and comparatively immaterial impurity
resulting merely from the phlogiston, and the various particular impurities,
constituted by the various products of putrefaction, or by the different matters
of the various contagions. Against these very different dangers the mode
and measure of precaution might admitt of no small difference. But this
belongs not necessarily to the subject, and you would not thank me, any more
than gentlemen of the faculty, who understand it better than I, or gentlemen
at large, who would not wish to understand it.
An Hospital built and conducted upon a plan of
this kind, of the success of which every body might be an observer, accessible
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