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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    PREVENTION OF DAMPNESS. It is known that in certain sudden changes of weather and such as happen very often in this climate, in every room of a house where there is not a fire, the walls and furniture become damp and cold—when this affects the beds and clothing of the inhabitants it is a most frequent cause of rheumatism, and diseases of a similar nature.— In a house warmed, according to my plan, this occurrence can never happen. # EQUALITY OF THE TEMPERATURE. There is hardly a single person who does not feel, in the interior of his house, how painful a sudden transition is from a warm room to a much colder one; the insalubrity of so disagreeable a change is also ascertained : to prevent it the only known way is to multiply the fires. The method I propose is far superior and more economical, it consists in managing the heat produced by a single fire, lighted in the lower part of a heuse, so as to wann ajl the rooms above at the will of its inhabitants. SUPPRESSION OF DRAUGHTS OF AIR. In an ordinary chimney not only does the small quan¬ tity of air necessary to feed the fire pass off, but a much larger quantity additional, as much, indeed, as can enter the chimney between the bottom of the mantle-piece and the fire. Now, it is this second and useless abstraction of the air, from the apartment, which produces the powerful draught of which we are sensible near the fire,—my con¬ trivance prevents this altogether. People in general, knowing that colds, stiff necks, rheumatisms, &c. are produced by draughts of air, are care¬ ful to avoid being placed between an open door and window, but the danger is not less when they are exposed to the