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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    or, as experience has taught me'; to be preferable, by a communication to the bed-rooms, through the drawing¬ rooms and parlours* from a low room, which I call a Recipient of Air, into which I admit the external air. It must necessarily follow that when the exterior temperature does not allow the windows to be left open, the Recipient below must answer the call for fresh air made by the Ven¬ tilator above: thus fresh air flows in almost imperceptibly, but yet with rapidity enough to carry oti‘ all the tainted air which may have collected in the rooms. In cold weather the mildest temperature will be enjoyed within doors by heating the air in the Recipient, and nothing is more easy. Another effect, and which no class of men has so much an interest to investigate and appreciate as you> Gentlemen, is that, by the Recipient, all the purposes of pneumatic medicine may be served. In it any artificial atmosphere may be made, and will then ascend into the apartment of the invalid. A simple objection may be offered, and I will, be¬ forehand, answer it. I may be told that the ordinary chimney acts as a ventilator, in each apartment, and an¬ swers the purpose which 1 propose, by the new contrivance, for the renewal of die air. Now, the chimney does not answer the purpose at all, and for this reason: in a room, the air which is most heated, always rises to the ceiling, while the cold air, coming in by the door or windows, lies jn the lower part. The air which has been heated in brea¬ thing, therefore, rises, and the pure air remains below. Ntfw, only the air which is below the level of the chimney- piece can enter the chimney, and this we have shewm is the pure air, w hile the higher air which has been brea^ tiled, or otherwise rendered impure, remains there and is breathed again and again, in the gradual descent which takes place as it cools.