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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    tice even possible means to arrive at this de¬ sirable end. Although he believes that he has completely succeeded, yet he has not had that con¬ fidence in his own opinions which supersedes the fear of drawing other persons into errors, which he himself might eventually, and against his own knowledge,have adopted: he has desired, therefore, before he made the invention public, to submit it to the inspection of the most celebrated Physicians, Chemists, medical Gentlemen and other scientific characters of the Metropolis; also, to Architects and Fire-Insurance Companies, to examine the prin¬ ciples upon which this is constructed, with regard to health, safety and economy. To the Physicians and Medical Gentlemen in London. Gentlemen, I beg leave to invite you, personally, to examine a method, 1 purpose to submit to the Public, for warming and rendering houses more salubrious. Permit me to lay be¬ fore you a succinct explanation of the principles, the ap¬ plication of which, I trust, will meet your approbation; you will then be better able to judge of the success at¬ tending the means I have employed, and you will also com¬ prehend, much better, the details 1 shall enter into when you shall please to honor me with your visit. Nothing would tend so much to the salubrity of dwell¬ ings as the expulsion of miasmata, more or less putrid, which arises from our breathing and perspiring, especially in bed¬ rooms. The exclusion of damp air, the avoiding too sud¬ den a passage from a warm to a cold room, and the /