Dr. Aikin on preferring Healthy &c. 8 9 
therefore, worthy of our highert admiration. 
But I can eafily conceive, that a fcheme like 
this, upon a fmaller fcale, might poflibly be 
applied to better ufe, than many of thofe collec¬ 
tions actually ferve. In a town like this, the 
opulence, and even the very exiftence of which, 
depends upon manufactures, and thefe again 
upon artsy machineryy and invention, a public 
cabinet, devoted to this purpofe, would be 
at'once of general ornament, and utility. 
Remarks on the different Success, with refpett to 
Health, of fome Attempts to pafs the Winter 
in high Northern Latitudes. By John 
Aikin, M. D. Read January 16, 1782. 
r V 'HOUGH the cure of difeafes may, perhaps, 
•*" raoft fafely be confined to the members of 
a profefiion devoted by education and habit to 
this foie objeCt, yet prefer ration of health muff, 
in fome meafure, be committed to the care and 
judgment of every individual. The difcufiion, 
therefore, of any means to obtain this end, di¬ 
verted, as it may be, of technical language and 
abftrufe fpeculation, cannot fail of being gene¬ 
rally 
