Paxton's Atmospheric Hospital
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary |
Subjects: | Exhibitions, Hospitals |
Discusses Joseph Paxton's proposal to turn his Crystal Palace into a sanatorium which would provide patients with 'the same atmosphere both in winter and summer', the atmosphere being purified to feed plants which would supply oxygen to the sick. | |
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