Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-12-15
The Furnace.t'irmd.

Anu lcHG.
II gives Us sincere pleasure 10 inform
our friends that they ;ire likely To die the
coming winter. because they will h"a,
their houses with the ;,bomintble hot air
furnace instead of the open crate. OF bet
ter vet the good ol,l-t;t-hioned tire-plae..
w. are more delighted 1t the prospect OF
their demise hrcau5c We lave warned
them of ii time and a~ain. and prayed and
begged and cNhortrl thlt tn would
keep HE social and glowing gra'c open
and let the wretchrd furnace stand tirtlpss;
but in vain. We have told them that the
furnace would kill them. We have cx-
planned tha, hot ;lir" was destructive to
health. We have pointed out the opera
ton OF cIrbonic acid and the effect of car
homie oxide when inhaled. We have
showp them how it poson> the blood and
shtivelS the lungs wlther> the skin :lnh
makes headache the normal condition Of
the family: but all IN vain. Thr Fireplace
'cn>tS tpo much.' The open ~rttr is
"loo dirty: it takes the @irl half the tim"
to dust up around it," They were we'd
ded to their Idols and we could not con-
vert them. But one satisfaction Stlll re-
manned. w could continu" 10 remind
them OF their approaching death. and
quietly estimate III" number of Years it
would take "th,t flunlc,.' 20 Kill them
all Oft.
But now the goi-. IL the lncrn,s
would have said (wr call them chrnis' J
have come to oar Rescue, and we feel
SuOng TO renew the fight. The French
Academy have inve~ti1 urI the facts and
determined them 10y abundlnt ,NI cri
mcnts. The following sums up some of
the results of these experiments. and tells
.lu>t how the furnace -ticnd Kills folks.
Ihe friends with whom We have pleaded
TO use open grLttS iustc;t of the blood
poisoncr' in ihc cellar. can imagine the
joy we feel in placing tbs dclcc,ab!r bit
of reading before them H. condensed in
the IrtGUH.:
a French physician OF eminnncc tie
cd thai y peculiar elias Of disc. sc WAS pre-
valent among lhe occupants Of certain
wards in the hospital at Savoy. bat not in
other waIds. His studies led him TO lh,.
belief that the blood of those p .ti,n,S WIS
pois hy the air they hrc..;h"d. The
symptoms were similar L those ob~eI we'd
where persons had attempted to Kill them
selves by the ftvoIitr method Of suicide in
francc-a close room and 4 pan Of burn
iny charcoal l. has been n>gcr aimed
that the poison in tiilt form uf >uiri,l. i
due not to the clrbonic acid. Iu, th.
clibunic uNi,l, inhaled OF The
two The llttpr Is far the more deadly.
acting rs Il blood poison Both ~as..S ar,.
produced when hard coal i hurnr il. a
furnace, bu lhr u\iu, i chiefly the result
when the draft i partly turnc, off after =
hot tire has been started. Ii has no smell.
1t is not absorbed by water: hence il i,
gets into the :;ir outside the furnace it viii
not br taken up bv >tclm "r moisture
Next c:.mc tn" discovery tilnr this c.rbpn-
lc oxide passes through red he; iron ~
easily rs "at"r through sieve. The
French Academy investigated the facts.
amt determined th"m bt ;tbund.nl rNp ri
ment-, Meanwhile the stoves oi the Savoy
hospital had n ri lue by op,n fire
places, nnl the whole train OF peculiar
symptoms amon" III" patients disappeared.
Gen. Norm afterwards showed that cylin-
'ier> of east non allowed the gases of com
huSli"n t" pass freely throlTl their sub
stance even ut 4 heat much below r,dnt>>
Quite recently Mr.. ". Chandler BOB
erls has demonstrated similar ia, i :;, to
other forms of iron. In short the furnace
70 heat am Is very little better tiIan The,
open pan of burning charcoal. 1t sets free
the same gases when its iron j. near II red