Chapter 16—Ventilation
General Statements
310. Air is the free blessing of heaven, calculated to electrify the
whole system.—
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311. Air must be in constant circulation to be kept pure.—
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Ventilation of the Sleeping-Room
312. Sleeping-rooms especially should be well ventilated, and the
atmosphere made healthy by light and air. Blinds should be left open
several hours each day, the curtains put aside, and the room thoroughly
aired.—
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313. Sleeping apartments should be large, and so arranged as
to have a circulation of air through them day and night. Those who
have excluded the air from their sleeping-rooms should commence to
change their course immediately. They should let in air by degrees,
and increase its circulation until they can bear it winter and summer,
with no danger of taking cold. The lungs, in order to be healthy, must
have pure air.—
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Ventilation in the Sick-Room
314. The sick-room, if possible, should have a draught of air
through it day and night, The draught should not come directly upon
the invalid. While burning fevers are raging, there is but little danger
of taking cold.... The sick must have pure, invigorating air. If no other
way can be devised, the sick, if possible, should be removed to another
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room, and another bed, while the sick-room, the bed, and bedding are
being purified by ventilation.—
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315. Every breath of vital air in the sick-room is of the greatest
value, although many of the sick are very ignorant on this point. They
feel much depressed, and do not know what the matter is. A draught of
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