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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    I have examined the Certificate, signed by se¬ veral medical gentlemen and other scientific cha¬ racters, I coincide in opinion with these gentlemen, and think it just to add that by the means which the Patentee proposes to adopt, the danger from fire is rather diminished than increased. The originals of these certificates may be in¬ spected by those who visit the dwelling of the Patentee. The four gentlemen who declined signing :t, testified their highest satisfaction at the different methods employed, and objected to sign it solely from their not knowing what were the different methods which might have been employed else¬ where, for Ventilation, and therefore judged them¬ selves incapable of pronouncing the superiority of any one. All the questions, observations and reflections which have been made during this inspection, and above all, the objection just now stated, elicit the follow ing explanations : \ It would be an error to imagine that because in such or such hospital, or any other place, Ven¬ tilation has a'readv been found useful and esta- Wished, that the bare adoption of the principle of Ventilation should in anvwise interfere with the method here made use of. In any Ventilator, whatever, hitherto esta¬ blished. the air sometimes enters and, at other