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    OPEN COUNCIL. 355

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    EFFECTS OF OUR DRINKING USAGES ON THE CO...

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    To The Editors Of Tlie English Woman's J...

    In 10000 and this estimate may be considered generally true both for town mines where and country , , large close , rooms air quantities . The , churches of proportion the or gas theatres are only being , rises volcanic generated in crowded districts and localities , than and exhaled other 4 to such . 10 places It as is

    p Is lain no proof that the " that would pre a sence larger not of exercise proportion a gas in a the which hihl proportion may deleterious still of be less onl influence y a very . " small , the percentage gy upon

    resp To irat understand ory process the . influence which an excess of carbonic acid in theexternal _^ air has upon the amount expired , four principal facts connected

    with membrane 1 . resp The iration having respiratory must on one be apparatus remembered side blood consists charged : — essentiall with carb in y onic in a acid nioist , and animal on the

    otherair containing oxygen , as its most important gredient . gases 2 . , throug The process h the membrane of respiration , the oxygen consists passing in the inward interchange s , the carbonic of these acid two !

    outwards 3 . This . interchange takes place with the greatest rapidity when the two areas it werein the most complete contrast to each other . As the

    for gases external receivi , air ng becomes more diminishes , saturated , the with process the exp of ired exchange carbonic becomes acid , its slower capacity and

    — oxygen slower not , from is till far at want from leng of being th air it exhausted may but from stop . the comp In retention this letel case y , even , of the its thoug animal own h dies carb the suffocated onic suppl acid y of _,,

    which the external air was , no longer able to receive from it . diffu tion 4 . sion of The carbonic of point the same acid of saturation in gas the into atmosp — it if from we here , the may , which lungs use , comp such has been letel a term y variousl checks —or the y all comp propor further uted

    but as 7 as or much 8 per as cent 10 . It probabl centseems y varies to In be some sufficient measure to _stojD in different the resp animals iratory , per , process in the strongest . lanation of the law of

    diffusion For a I more must comp refer lete your and corresp scientific onden exp t to any text book on Ph gaseous ysics . Miller ' s Elements of Chemistry , vol . I ., or evenFowne's Manual , would give

    winch all As the I the info have quotation rm not ation Dr . she was Murchison requires taken . . ' s It book would at hand be easil , I cannot y found give in the the chap page ter from _ovt

    Typhus Fever . I have the Ladies honour to remain obedient , servant , your ,

    The Writer of the Article in Question ..

    Open Council. 355

    OPEN COUNCIL . 355

    Effects Of Our Drinking Usages On The Co...

    EFFECTS OF OUR DRINKING USAGES ON THE CONDITION OF WOMEN . i

    Ladies In a letter , in your last number on this subject , Mr . James Haughtorr says , that Movement censure is " cast for an on expression Mrs . Bayley of op in inion an article that we headed are too The anxious Tem to

    perance , no find Being such work censure the for writer women is to of ( be married the found article in women it in question and ) . that , Mr I may . Haug be hton allowe must d to have say , read that ,

    M it rs inattentivel . Bayley the ' s support y exertions . On of the , the and contrary famil the strongest , on the the greatest wife disapprobation instead admiration of the of is husband the expressed custom . The for of

    throwing believes only poin the t of disagreement loyment of sing is with le y women regard to to be sing demoralizing le women . an Mrs d I b Bay elieve ley

    the want of employment emp to be still more demoralizing . In all , other respects

    we agree .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1863, page 355, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071863/page/67/