An historical account of a new method for extracting the foul air out of ships ... : with the description and draught of the machines, by which it is performed: and the relation given thereof by Dr. Mead, to the Royal Society / By Samuel Sutton.

  • Sutton, Samuel.
Date:
1745
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Credit: An historical account of a new method for extracting the foul air out of ships ... : with the description and draught of the machines, by which it is performed: and the relation given thereof by Dr. Mead, to the Royal Society / By Samuel Sutton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ’ < ' - • f' > foldered, I found them juft as I left them the Day before. Finding myfelf thus difappointed, I took a Candle, and went down to the Pipes, which were carried through Deck, and laid under the Beam, towards the Well, about thirty Feet in Length from the Copper; and, as foon as I put the Candle to the Ends of the Pipes, they immediately extinguifhed the Flame: Which fully convinced thofe on Board of the great Ufefulnefs of my Invention. But, to my extreme Surprize, I no fooner came on Shore, than I found, that the Mafter afloat was fent from the King’s Yard, to take down my Pipes, and plug up the Holes: Upon which, perceiving the Obftrudtions my Experiment would meet with, I determined to apply to fame Gentlemen of the Faculty, that were pro¬ per Judges ■ of the Ufefulnefs of my Scheme. Being no Stranger to the Chara&er of Dr Mead, Phyfician to His Majefty, diftinguilhed as much by his Humanity as C * his