Breathing bad air
By: by Wm. A. Alcott. Contents:
Series: Health tracts -- no. 6
Publisher: George W. Light
Published: 1839
Place of publication: Boston; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
Subjects: Carbon Dioxide; Hygiene; Air quality; Respiration; Air Pollution; Carbon dioxide; Adverse effects
Notes: Cover-title.

"First published in the Library of Health for Aug. and Sept."
Table of contents: title: Breathing bad air; title: Franklin's views of bad air, Anecdote; title: Common sense views. Dr. Caspar of Berlin; title: Why farming is comparatively healthy; title: The atmosphere. Respiration of breathing. Blood; title: Carbonic acid gas; title: its uses and dangers; title: Death in wells, mines, caves, &c.; title: Death from charcoal; title: Black Hole at Calcutta; title: Prison ships, slave ships and hospitals; title: Improved jails, penitentiaries, school-rooms, &c.; title: Mortality of childre; title: Directions to mothers; title: Important facts in Physiology; title: Opinions of Dr. Clark and Thackrah ...