A manual of practical hygiene for students, physicians, and health officers . ets are the invention of the last half date back, however, many centuries, for in a somewhat simplerform they were in use in ancient Rome and Pompeii, and probablyeven earlier in Asia and Africa. These primitive forms, however, weredevoid of the mechanical appliances, flushing tanks, etc., of the closetsof the present day. It is said that the prototype of the present closetwas in use in France and Spain before the sixteenth century, but, sofar as is known, no diagrams of their construction are extant. In
A manual of practical hygiene for students, physicians, and health officers . ets are the invention of the last half date back, however, many centuries, for in a somewhat simplerform they were in use in ancient Rome and Pompeii, and probablyeven earlier in Asia and Africa. These primitive forms, however, weredevoid of the mechanical appliances, flushing tanks, etc., of the closetsof the present day. It is said that the prototype of the present closetwas in use in France and Spain before the sixteenth century, but, sofar as is known, no diagrams of their construction are extant. InEngland, the first water-closet with a flushing apparatus was constructedunder the direction of Sir John Harington, at his country seat at Kel-ston, near Bath, and described by him in a satirical, semi-politicalwork, An Anatomy of the Metamorphosed Ajax/ printed in 1596, ILlJMIllSd. 521 from wlii<li work Ii^s. 7! .mkI 77 ;iic Inkfii. Iij.^, 7) .•-liows tlu?details ol Uic :i])|);ini(,UH (Jcsctiltcil li\ liim ; IoIIowh: Fin. 70. te\v^\\\\v.\^\^ASi^v:::,; -fll. t. Reduced facsimiU of the cililest known (Iflro drawing showing details of a water-closet. Here are the parts set clown with a rate of the prices, that a buildermay guess what he hath to pay. ^4 the cistern ; stone or brick. Price 6 b, d, e the pipe that conies from the cistern, with a stopple to the washer 3 c a waste-pipe 1 /, g the stem of the great stopple, with a key to it 1 h the form of the upper brim of the vessel or stool-pot . . m the stool-pot, of stone 8 n the great brass sluice, to which is three inches current to send it down a gallop into the Jax 10 i the seat, with a peak devant for elbow-room. The wholecharge tliirty sliillings and eight pence ; yet a of mymasters was offered tliirty pounds for the like. Memoran-dum. The scale is about half an inch to a foot. Fig. 77 shows the apparatus set up and during flushing. Here isthe same all put together ; that the workman may see if it be wel
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