A practical treatise on gas and ventilation : with special relation to illuminating, heating, and cooking by gas : including scientific helps to engineer-students and others / by E. E. Perkins.

  • Perkins, E. E.
Date:
1856
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Credit: A practical treatise on gas and ventilation : with special relation to illuminating, heating, and cooking by gas : including scientific helps to engineer-students and others / by E. E. Perkins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    haling pure air in your homes, so that the future man may in his earliest childhood lay the foundation of a robust constitution ? for listen to what medical and other quali- fied men have said on the effects of vitiated atmosphere on children, normally and by descent. Mr. Carmichael, in his Essay on the Na- ture of Scrofula, before gas was used as now, charges vitiated domestic air, particularly in sleeping-rooms, with being the primary cause. The whole of the medical men's evidence taken before the committee of the House of Commons, England, 1840, pointed to the same cause, adding, that in the cases of those who pass their lives in close, confined, unventilated apartments, their children are peculiarly subject to scrofula and softening of their bones. Dr. Arnott states that an individual, the offspring of persons successively living in bad air, will have a constitution decidedly