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Modern times have also given rise to improved 

 piodes of preserving the health, and promoting the 

 comfort of persons confined in Prisons, and other 

 close apartments. The honour due to the Rev. 

 Dr. Hales, and Sir John Pringle, for their phi- 

 losophic inquiries, and enterprising exertions to 

 forward this branch of improvement, are generally 

 known. But to no individual that ever lived is 

 the cause of humanity more indebted for services 

 of this kind, than to the immortal Howard, 

 whose long and painful journies, persevering la- 

 bours, and successful plans for meliorating the 

 condition of Prisoners, in every part of the world, 

 to which he could obtain access, will ever form 

 one of the most honourable pages in the annals of 

 human nature.*" 



The diseases of Warm Climates are become 

 better understood, by the efforts of modern times 

 to extend the range of geographical and commer- 

 cial enterprise; and, from their bold and definite 

 features, much light has been thrown on the theory 

 and treatment of such as prevail in more temperate 

 regiorts. In fact, the whole of that important and 

 interesting field of inquiry which relates to the 

 comparative frequency and force of particular dis- 

 eases, as they appear in diflTerent regions of the 

 earth, and in different states of society, had been 

 but little explored prior to the period which we 

 are now considering. 



The exertions recently made to investigate the 

 nature and causes, and to lessen the fatality of Piil- 

 monary Consumption, deserve a transient notice. 



g In John Howard the eighteenth century may boast of having: pro- 

 duced an UNIQUE IN THE HISTORY OF MAN. It vvould hc upjust to Com- 

 pare him with any hero of benevolence, merely human, before or since his 

 time, for such an one never existed. It has been truly said, that his plan 

 for promoting the happiness of his fellow creatures was original; and that 

 it was as full oi genius as of humanity. That It was the Religion o? 

 Christ which directed and animated the exertions of this wonderful man, 

 n<7 one can doubt who is acquainted with his history and character. 



