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him. It was curious that he felt drowsy and seemed inclined 

 to drop off to sleep when in the chamber. 



We ourselves tried the chamber on several occasions, and 

 certainly experienced the same effect. After one of these 

 experiments, the coldest air of British winter felt quite warm 

 and balmy when we issued into it. Up to the middle of the 

 year 191 2 we had made many experiments in the cold chamber, 

 and concluded that more of any such experiments on animals 

 were scarcely required, and that what was wanted was the 

 subjection of human patients suffering from various diseases 

 to the dry cold of the chamber. Unfortunately, though we 

 issued circulars to the medical men, none of them seemed 

 inclined to make the experiment, especially as the cold chamber 

 was not actually built in association with the hospitals. Hence 

 the final test which I had hoped for when the chamber was first 

 built never came to be properly applied. At the end of 191 2 I 

 left Liverpool to reside in London, and was appointed Honorary 

 Physician for Tropical Diseases to King's College Hospital. 

 We then thought of removing the chamber to that hospital, 

 but as the latter was not completed, I doubted whether it would 

 be advisable to ask Sir Edwin at that time for the money 

 required for that removal. One thing and another prevented 

 further elaboration of this idea, and the old freezing chamber 

 in Liverpool was finally closed. Then, just as I was thinking 

 of starting one in London, Sir Edwin died. 



Nevertheless I think that the results obtained were quite 

 worth the money and believe that the day will come when 

 physicians will depend much more for treatment upon such 

 things as temperature, light, and dry air than they do now. I 

 had always hoped to commence this kind of treatment, but 

 the difficulty of conducting protracted and out-of-the-way 

 researches in Britain has finally dissuaded me from making 

 the attempt. We shall continue to have drugs poured down 

 our throats for many years to come. I consider, however, that 

 Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, with whom the idea started, 

 was pioneer in this subject. 



The services of his research assistant, Dr. John Thomson, 

 were invaluable in the other investigations which I referred to, 

 and will be found described in the subjoined list of papers. 



I should mention three more ideas started by Sir Edwin 

 and the researches on which were paid for by him. The first 



