On breathing and ventilation / by Alfred Schofield.

  • Schofield, A. T. (Alfred Taylor), 1846-1929.
Date:
[1890?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On breathing and ventilation / by Alfred Schofield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    amount of dirt tliat will thus be stopped on its way into the room. We have now pointed out some of the benefits and ways of proper ventilation, but we have yet to mention one of the greatest advantages it gives. Catching Cold. Let us remember that the most fatal disease in England is consumption, then come bronchitis and inflammation of the lungs; and mark that one of the commonest ways these begin is by our “ catching cold ” from going from close unventilated rooms into the open air, and that the surest general preventive we can adopt against these diseases is always to have our rooms (and especially our bedrooms) fresh and well ventilated. The ignorance that sits in close rooms with sandbags on the tightly closed windows, list round the doors, and shavings up the chimney, to avoid cold, only ensures catching it. While the enlightened common sense that lets the foul air freely out and the fresh freely in, is the surest safeguard against it. God’s two Gifts. It is distressing to find how ignorant and prejudiced we are even in our enlightened age concerning God’s best gifts and simplest laws. We have seen the result of voluntarily and foolishly shutting out His free gift to all, fresh pure air, the breath of life, even where it most abounds, from the bedroom of a Highland cottage. We have seen how the simplest laws that His wisdom has laid down whereby fresh air is ever seeking to take the place of foul, are frustrated and hindered, and especially by our increased skill, as we learn to make doors, walls and windows more air-tight than in the days of our forefathers, when the wind could enter where it