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Excerpt from A Treatise on Ventilation, Natural and Artificial
For simplicity and distinctness the work has been divided into five Chapters. The first chapter is devoted to the con sideration of ventilation in its chemical and physiological relations; in the second, natural or spontaneous ventilation is treated of and in the third, fourth, and fifth chapters, forced ventilation, and a number of the artificial and mecha nical agents employed to effect this, are described. In the works of others on ventilation where a systematic arrange ment is made, it has been the buildings or other places which have been so described; but in this, the different agents or instruments to effect ventilation have been classified, whilst a description of the buildings &c. Has not been overlooked. The subjects treated of are illustrated by numerous plams and woodcuts; and for convenience, a Summary of the whole treatise is subjoined.
In treating a subject on which so much diversity of opinion exists, not only in theory but in practice, it has been the desire of the author, while giving his own views and opinions.
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