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to conceive them fo compounded, as to refifl the all-pow. 
eiful chemical influence of the oxy-muriatic acid gas, or 
even the muriatic acid gas in its fimple (fate. 
M. Guyton, in 1803, availing himfelf of the refults of 
thefeexperiments of M. Morveau, contrived thefollowing 
apparatus for purifying the atmofphere of hofpitals, bar¬ 
racks, places of public refort, &c.—Take a jar of very 
tliick flint glafs, tliat may be procured in any of the (h.ops, 
of the capacity of about 35 cubic inches. The edge mud 
be prepared to receive a cover formed o-f a flat plate of 
glafs. The bottom of the jar is to be faftcned to a board, 
made to Aide horizontally in the grooves of two fide pie- 
ces. Thefe fides fupport a covering, through which 
palfes a fcrew that ferves to lift otf or put down the cover 
of the jar by means of a nut fixed to a moveable piece. 
The velfel being thus difpofed, and admitting its capa- 
city to be 35 cubic inches, there mufl; be poured into it fuc- 
ceilively fix inches of nitric acid, at the degree of con- 
centration above mentiotied, and fix inches of muriatic 
acid; to thefe mufl; be added 600 grains of black oxyd 
of manganefe pulverifed, and the veffel mufl be imrae- 
diately clofed by prefling down the cover. Thefe pro¬ 
portions are given on account of the neceflity of leaving 
at lead two thirds of it empty. 
If the infection be very noxious, or if the places from 
which it proceeds are fo numerous as to renew it from 
time to time, it would be advifable to have two or three 
of thefe jars in different parts of the ward. In an apart, 
ment of lefs extent than that here fuppofed, for inflance 
in one containing only ten or twelve beds, or in places of 
refort, w here the air is vitiated only by a momentary ac¬ 
cumulation of animal effluvia, inftead of the above veffel, 
one of thofe bottles, with a very wide neck, for the ule 
of laboratories, may be employed. 
By putting into one of thefe bottles 3^ cubic inches of 
each of the two acids and 360 grains of black oxyd of 
manganefe, a fupply of anti infedlious gas is procured in 
the nioft fimple manner. 7 he only caufe of apprehenfion 
here, and which is removed by the apparatus, is, that 
the flopper, being kept down only by its own weight, 
might be forced out by the expanfion of the gas; but, to 
prevent this accident, nothing more is necelfary than to 
faften a lump of lead to the flopper. 
The only inflrudlion to be given relative to the man¬ 
ner of ufing thefe refervoirs of anti-infe£tious gas, is to 
open them when found proper, and to Ibut tliem as foon 
as thofe neareft them begin to be affected. The expan- 
fion of the portion of gas emitted follows of courfe, and 
the effedl is fiicb, that if the vefl'el remains open only 
four or five minutes, thofe who enter an hour afterwards 
at the farthefl door from it will immediately perceive 
tliat there has been a difengagement of oxygen gas. — It 
will doubtlefs be admitted, that of all the procefl'es for 
acid fumigations, at prefent known, this is the meft fim¬ 
ple, the leaft liable to accident, and the bell calculated 
for common ufe. Every one who confiders that the gas 
thus produced is acknowledged to be the mofl efficacious 
even by thofe who leeraed to doubt its afflivity before tbe 
means of regulating it at pleafure were difeovered ; in a 
word, every one who adopts the decided opinion of many 
philofophical men, that this gas excels all others in the 
property of exciting the vital powers, mufl agree, that 
when petty paffions are exhaulted in oppofing the evi¬ 
dence of fafts, tiie fuperiority of the oxygenated muriatic 
acid gas, as a purifying and anti-contagious gas, will be 
eftablifhed, and tiiat its extemporaneous preparation will 
be the common prefeription for the prefervation of health. 
.—The form of the apparatus is given in the following 
figure: A, a flat piece of wood, on which are fixed the 
two uprights B, B. C, a glafs jar, glued to a fmall 
moveable board, d, whiclt Hides into the grooves of the 
two uprights. E, a wooden fcrew, pafling. through the 
crofs-bar F, and faftened at its extremity to the moveable 
horizontal piece G, which Hides up and down the two 
upright pieces, ft, a glafs plate, ferving for a cover, 
and glued to the lower furface of the moveable piece G. 
FU'.VIINGLY, adv. Angrily ; in a rage.—That which 
we move from our better learning and inflrudlion fake, 
turneth unto anger and choler in them : they grow alto- 
gether our of quietnefs with it ; they anfwer fumingty-, 
that they are alhamed to defile their pens with making 
anfwer to fuch idle queftions. Hooker, 
FU'MITER, J\ A plant; fumitory ; 
Why, he was met even now. 
As mad as the vext fea; tinging aloud. 
Crown’d with rank fumiter AnA furrow weeds. Shakefpeare. 
FU'MITOR V, yi See Fumaria and Adoxa. 
FUMOS'ITY, f Smokinefs. Scott. Not muck ufed. 
FU'MOUS, or Fumy, adj, [J'umcux,Je, Fr.] Producing 
fumes : 
From dice and wine the youth retir’d to refl. 
And puff’d the fumy god fiom out his breafl ; 
Ev’n then he dreamt of .irink and lucky play ; 
More lucky had it lafled till the day. Dryden„ 
F[JN,y. [A low word.] Spoit; high merriment j fro- 
licfome delight : 
Don’t mind me, though, for all my fun and jokes, 
You bards may find us bloods good-natur’d folks. Afbi'c. 
FUNAMBULA'TION, /. [from the Lat. funis, a 
rope, and ambulo, to walk.] The a6t of walking or 
dancing on a rot e. 
FUN AM'BU LUS, y among the Romans, fignified a 
rope-dancer; called by the Greeks fcktenobales. At 
Rome, tlie funambuli firfl appeared u'nder the coufulate 
of Sulpicius Preticus and Licinius Stoio, who were tlie 
firfl introducers of the fcenic reprefentations. It is ad¬ 
ded, that they were firfl exhibited in the ifland of the 
Tyber, and that the cenfdrs Melfaia and Caflius after. 
Wards promoted them to the theatre. In the Floralia, or 
Ludi Florales, held under Galba, tiiere were funambula- 
tory elephants, as we are informed by Suetonius. Nero 
alfo Ihowed the like, in honour of his mother Agrippina, 
Vopifeus relates the fame in the limes of Cartnus and 
Numerianus. 
FUNA'RIA, y. In botany, a genus of mofs; the 
fame with Koelreutera of Hedwig. The generic charac¬ 
ters are—Capfule obovate : fringe double; outer of fix- 
teen oblique wedge form teeth, cohering at their tips ; 
inner a membrane divided into fixteen fiat teeth: veil 
fquare. 
Species. I. Funaria hygrometica ; leaves ovate, acute, 
concave, entire, infledted } capfule fwclling, drooping. 
2. Funaria 
