Excerpt from Sewer Gases, Their Nature and Origin: And How to Protect Our Dwellings This little volume is an unpretentious effort to present, in the briefest possible manner, the gleanin'gs of several years' careful study of the Sewer Gas question. It has been condensed from the lectures on Sanitary Science delivered by the author before various Medical Societies and Colleges. While extended considera tion has been given to those. Matters that specially call for it, brevity has been aimed at, that Whatever other faults may be found With the discourse, no one shall deny it the rare merit of being short. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.