Some considerations on the different ways of removing confined and infectious air : and the means adopted, with remarks on the contagion, in Maidstone gaol / by Thomas Day. To which is added an appendix, containing some experiments on ventilating small sitting rooms, and preventing chimneys from smoking.

  • Day, Thomas, 1749 or 1750-1818.
Date:
[1784]
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Credit: Some considerations on the different ways of removing confined and infectious air : and the means adopted, with remarks on the contagion, in Maidstone gaol / by Thomas Day. To which is added an appendix, containing some experiments on ventilating small sitting rooms, and preventing chimneys from smoking. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    might be fubftituted, particularly where no fire or fire place is allowed. Let a wide (hallow tub (or what is more com- modioufly ufed, the machine,)t that has its bottom perforated full of fmall holes, be placed on fup- pouers, as near the ceiling as is convenient to pour in cold vinegar, and another on the floor, fomewhat wider, immediately under the firft, to receive the liquor as it falls; which will frrve repeatedly in different parts of the room, 'till it has palled through moft of the confined air. Firing gunpowder will tend much to purify in- feaed places, as the explofion will force out a con- fiderable column of air, and make room for the admiffion of frefli, provided there is a communica- tion with the external air as above recited; and the fmoke will be the acid of fulphur. And as a confiderable portion of fixed air is ge- nerated in the bodies of men, and thrown out by the mouth as excrementitious; the pafiing of hme waterthrough it occafionally, as the vinegar is dircc- ted + The machine is here left out, as it is defcribed in pages 39, 40, and 41.