Nature and health : a popular treatise on the hygiene of the person and the home / by Edward Curtis.

  • Edward Curtis
Date:
1906
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Credit: Nature and health : a popular treatise on the hygiene of the person and the home / by Edward Curtis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    the outer air and movable panes below, operates like the opened scuttle. Ventilating - shafts, when provided, will be vastly more effective if the inevitable ornamental grating be removed. But ventilating-shafts are not common in ordinary dwelling-houses. For the individual chambers, then, the one and only possible outlet is the fireplace. - If this writer were to have his way, any ar- chitect designing a suite of rooms, especially in an apartment-house or an office-building, and neglecting to provide at least one fireplace—real, with chimney-flue complete, and not a dummy —should be drummed out of the professional camp! And whatsoever odist may be casting about for a theme seriously deserving of rhapsody, let him sing of the ingleside! For in modern dwell- ing as in castle'' old in story, whether for warm- ing, for ventilating, or for binding together the family with *' sweet influences , the open fire holds place immortal,—^the one device handed down from the days when man first struck sparks that modem improvement, with its devilish ctm- ning in catering to sloth at the expense of health, has not wholly succeeded in ''improving into banishment. The fireplace provides an air-outlet pointing straight to heaven, as such outlets should, where also by a fire at the base of the flue the up-, draught is enormously reinforced. Even withoxtt
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