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Excerpt from Practical Ventilation, as Applied to Public, Domestic, and Agricultural Structures: Being an Elucidation of Plans and Suggestions, of Easy Application, for Ventilating Every Species of Architectural Structure; With Remarks on Heating, Construction of Fireplaces, Cure of Smoky Chimneys; And an Appendix on the Ventilation of Ships, Steambo
Through many years have elapsed since men of science first demonstrated the fact that the inhalation of impure air, which had been previously expelled from the lings, exerted a very deleterious effect upon the party subject to its influence ; still it has been only within a very short period that the importance of Ventilation, not only as a means of withdrawing foul from, but of securing a large supply of fresh air to, the interiors of our houses, has been fully recognised: and its due value assigned to the fact that such supply is eminently conducive to the right performance of the mental, as well as of the physical functions of the human frame.
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