WYMAN. — COOLING OP HOSPITALS. 489 



scenes, which displace, for tlie time at least, present surroundings, 

 and encourage the hope, so helpful to the sick, of a speedy return ta 

 their former enjoyments. 



The experience of the Cambridge Hospital leads to these two con- 

 clusions : first, that fresh air directly from the open, in the quantity 

 and manner there supplied, can be made to give great comfort to the 

 sick during the heats of summer ; and, secondly, that pi'evious cooling 

 of the air so supplied is difficult and practically useless. 



To this may be added, what is of much importance to charity 

 hospitals, that the method here adopted is the least expensive of the 

 cooling processes hitherto made generally known. 



