treating Perfons affe&ed by burning Charcoal. 327 
does not at all account for the complaints brought on at 
this period; for, upon examination, they generally find 
every thing right there, and flill the ugar, or hurtful 
vapour, remaining in the room. 
As the effects of both are fimilar, as I have faid above, 
and likewife the mode of recovery, I fhall only give you 
an account of the operation of the principle emitted by 
burning .charcoal, and of the method of bringing thofe 
people to life who have been fuffocated by it (as I think 
it is erroneoufly termed) ; this will fuperfede the necef- 
lity of giving the hiftory of both, or rather it will be 
giving both at the fame time. 
Ruffian houfes are heated by the means of ovens; 
and the manner of heating them is as follows. A num- 
ber of billets of wood are placed in the peech or ftove, 
and allowed to burn till they fall in a mafs of bright red 
cinders ; then the vent above is ffiut up, and likewife the 
door of the peech which opens into the room, in order to 
concentrate the heat ; this makes the tiles of which the 
peech is compofed as hot as you defire, and fufficiently 
warms the apartment; but fometimes a fervant is fo 
negligent as to ffiut up the peech or oven before the 
wood is fufficiently burnt, for the red cinders ffiould be 
turned over from time to time to fee that no bit of wood 
remains of a blackiffi colour, but that the whole mafs is 
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