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Mr. Grindon informs us that : 



'Dr. Percival's town house was in King Street. His 

 country seat was Hart Hill, in the Eccles Old Road, 

 nearly opposite Claremont. It was then an old-fashioned 

 white stuccoed house. The existing pseudo-classical man- 

 sion is comparatively new. Dr. Percival was one of the 

 only three gentlemen in the community at the period 

 in question who kept a private carriage.' From ' Man- 

 chester Banks and Bankers] by Leo H. Grindon. 



The family name Percival has left, but as a Chris- 

 tian name it is found in Sir Percival Heywood, whose 

 grandfather married a daughter of Dr. Percival. In our 

 Society we have kept it in our memory by a marble tablet 

 behind the President's chair. Lately this has been covered 

 by a portrait in oil taken from a miniature, and presented 

 as said by Mr. F. Nicholson. 



NOTE. As it is not intended to return to the sanitary 

 epoch if we can avoid it, we may say here that another 

 movement is not well known to have begun in Manchester, 

 namely, the use of carbolic acid in curing wounds. Mr. 

 Alex. McDougall, when beginning the manufacture of 

 disinfecting powder, used to have many people coming to 

 him with wounds, and reported to the writer numerous cases 

 of marvellously quick healing. We do not think that he 

 ever published an account of the circumstances. 



Mr. McDougall was once desirous of forming a sanitary 

 society. Every man was to have his house examined 

 at suitable times. He wished the writer of this to put 

 it in motion ; but it first required a man to rouse the 

 public and make a commotion, and the invitation was 

 declined. The public mind, too, was not then prepared 

 as it is now ; but it is well to remember that these ideas 



