Gazette of Health, Volume 151830 |
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Page 924 - The experiment was made several times, and those who made it said they suffered no oppression or inconvenience in the act of respiration. The third experiment was with the complete apparatus. Two rows of...
Page 924 - A fire of shavings was then lighted, and sustained in a very large raised chafing dish, and the fireman approaching it, plunged his head into the middle of the flames, with his face towards the fuel, and in that way went several times round the chafing dish, and for a period of above a minute in duration.