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"This comprehensive treatise should be read by all who wish to secure health,
and especially by those constructing churches, lecture-rooms, school-houses, &c.—It
is undoubted, that many diseases are created and spread in consequence of the little
attention paid to proper ventilation. Dr. G. writes knowingly and plainly upon this all-important
topic."

"The whole book is a complete manual of the subject of which it treats; and we
venture to say that the builder or contriver of a dwelling, school house, church, theatre,
ship, or steamboat, who neglects to inform himself of the momentous truths it
asserts, commits virtually a crime against society."

"When shall we learn to estimate at their proper value, pure water and pure air,
which God provided for man before he made man, and a very long time before he
permitted the existence of a doctor? We commend the Uses and Abuses of Air to our
readers, assuring them that they will find it to contain directions for the ventilation of
dwellings, which every one who values health and comfort should put in practice."