New use for Gutta Percha
Anon
Genre: | Essay, Drollery |
Relevant illustrations: | wdct. |
Subjects: | Public Health, Pollution, Sanitation |
Describes a mask with a gutta-percha pipe that could be worn in urban areas 'for enabling the wearer to breathe the upper and purer currents of air'. The illustration shows a figure wearing a mask to which is attached a long vertical pipe. | |
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