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demanded, as the best of all, by the inspection principle, must in a view to ventilation have have in a considerable
degree, the advantage in this view over the rectilinear: and even, were
the the difference sufficiently material, the inspection principle might
be applied to his oval with little or no disadvantage. The form of the
inspection-lodge might in this case follow that of the containing building:
and that central part, so far from obstructing the ventilation,
would rather, as it should seem, assist it, encreasing the force of the current
by the compression. It should seem also that even even to a circular building
the central lodge would give the same aptitude to ventilation which the Doctor's
oval 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,
reen 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 and
the different matters of the various contagions. Against these very different
dangers the mode and measure of precuation 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, an establishment
accessible to the patients friends, who, without incommoding or
being incommodded, might see the whole economy of it carried on under
their eye, would lose, it is to be hoped, a great deal part of those repelling
terrors, which deprive of the benifit of such institutions many objects, whom
a prejudice, in league with poverty, either debars altogether from relief,
or drives them to seek it in much less elligible shapes. Who knows but
that the certainty of a medical attendance, not occasional short-lived
or even precarious as at present, but constant and uninterrupted, might
not render such a situation preferable, even to home, in the eyes of many
persons, who could afford to pay for it? and that the erection of a building
of this kind might turn to account, as a speculation of profit, in the
hands of some enterprising practitioner?
A Prison, as I observed in a former letter, includes an
Hospital. In Prisons upon on this construction, every cell may receive the
properties of an hospital, without undergoing any change. The whole Prison
The whole Prison would be perhaps be a better Hospital than any building
known hitherto by that name. Yet should it be thought of use, a few Cells
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