454 On oltnhnng an equal Temperature in Housei. 



advantages to be expected from such an institution for many 

 disorders, particularly for that of pulmonarv tubercles, I 

 am assured, in consequence of the benefit procured bv the 

 comparatively rude contrivances 1 have employed for warm- 

 in<j: the rooms of our ill-adaplcd houses during the last 15 

 years : such as by means of large stone bottles filled with 

 boiling-hot water, properly disposed, and assisted bv double 

 doors, double windows, &cc. 'J'his plan I have not only 

 consia'ntlv recommended to many ho.ndred pupils, in my 

 Lectures, but communicated to a number of persons, with 

 the hope of exciting some of them to attempt to erect a fit 

 .establishment. No one more feelin<ilv embraced the pro- 

 posal than that great encouragcr of works of public utility. 

 Sir John Sinclair. I put into his hands the [)lan of a build- 

 ing which, at his desire, had been drawn at nty request, by 

 the late Mr. Holland of Sloane Square, for the purpose 

 now spoken of. Sir John mentions this project in his first 

 tract Onliealth and Longevity, published, I think, in 1801. 

 For a reason more intertstins; to myscif than to the public, 

 I beg leave to mention thai 1 particularly recomniended 

 warm air as the most effectual means known of iiiqieding 

 the progress of pulmonary consumption, in a little coinmu- 

 nication to Dr. Duncan*. I believe, too, that the practice 

 or wanning rooms and regulating their temperature bv the 

 therinomeier has i)een more frequent in this metropolis du- 

 ring the last four or five years than formerlv. 



In the proposed institution, so far from claiminsi any 

 disciivery of a new practice, it is not even pretended to be 

 a revival : but it is judged from experience, that it has been 

 employed only very limitedly and inadcquartly, in j)!ace of 

 the very extensive and much nujre beneficial mode now 

 intended. 



I have much pleasure in acquainting you at this time, 

 that a few days ago an architect of oreat celebruy, and to 

 whom ihe British public owes many of its most usesul 

 works, assured nie that he would shortly produce a grand 

 plan for executing my design for the purposes of health, 

 and conjoin a variety of comforts, and even some of the 

 luxuries, of the hot climates. 



I take this opportunity to offer mv tribute of that respect 

 which is due to you from every cultivator of science, for 

 the very hberal and public-spirited conduct of your excel- 

 lent periodical work^ and to assure you that I am 



your obliged friend, 



Geouge Pearson. 



:* See the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, vol. i. p- 120", ISC';. 



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