Explanation of a new method for warming and purifying the air in private houses and public buildings : for totally destroying smoke, for purifying the air in stables, and every kind of buildings [sic] in which animals are lodged.

  • Chabannes, Jean-Frédéric de, marquis de Curton, 1762-1836
Date:
1815
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Credit: Explanation of a new method for warming and purifying the air in private houses and public buildings : for totally destroying smoke, for purifying the air in stables, and every kind of buildings [sic] in which animals are lodged. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EXPLANATION OF A MEW METHOD FOR WARMING AND PURIFYING THE AIR IN HOUSES, <$•<?. $•<?. Sj'C. Every one knows that air, being; breathed, is de¬ prived of its vital base, and is, in that state, unfit for respiration. The danger of dampness and currents of air, in rooms, is equally well known. There are few persons who have not experienced the painful sensation arising from an immediate transition from a warm room to one which is cold, and who has not been often pained by the inequa¬ lity of temperature, in an apartment where a large fire is kept. The suppression of these four principal causes of the greater part of our dis¬ eases, must, undoubtedly, be esteemed an universal benefit. Stimulated by the hope of discovering a remedy for them, the Inventor has put in prac-
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