 Sewage traversing the soil undergoes a process to some extent analogous to that experienced by blood passing through the lungs in the act of breathing. A field of porous soil irrigated intermittently virtually performs an act of respiration, copying on...  The Health exhibition literature. v. 1 - Page 2771884Full view - About this book
 | Reports on the progress of practical and scientific medicine - 1871 - 734 lehte
...extent analogous to that experienced by blood passing through the lungs in the act of breathing. A field of porous soil irrigated intermittently virtually...dealing as an oxidising agent with the filthy fluid which is trickling through it. And a whole acre of soil, three or four feet deep, presenting within... | |
 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - 1871 - 740 lehte
...extent analogous to that experienced by blood passing through the lungs in the act of breathing. A field of porous soil, irrigated intermittently, virtually...act of respiration, copying on an enormous scale the lung-action of a breathing animal ; for it is alternately receiving and expiring air, and thus dealing... | |
 | 1872 - 894 lehte
...experienced by blood in passing through the lungs in the act of breathNATURAL ALCHEMY. ing. A field of porous soil irrigated intermittently virtually...breathing animal, for it is alternately receiving and exposing air, aud thus dealing as an oxidizing agent with the filthy fluid which is passing through... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1876 - 1060 lehte
...analogous to that experienced by blood in passing through the lungs in the act of breathing. A field of porous soil, irrigated intermittently, virtually...act of respiration, copying on an enormous scale the * In many cases, filters for ordinary drinking water have heroine eo clogged in a short time as to... | |
 | Lory Marsh - 1876 - 340 lehte
...analogous to that experienced by the blood passing through the lungs in the act of breathing. A field of porous soil irrigated intermittently virtually...act of respiration, copying on an enormous scale the lungaction of a breathing animal ; for it is alternately receiving and expiring air, and thus dealing... | |
 | John Bailey Denton - 1877 - 524 lehte
...and thus altogether transforming, as well as for merely separating, the filth of dirty water. A field of porous soil irrigated intermittently virtually...dealing as an oxidising agent with the filthy fluid which is trickling through it. To this chemical property must be added another cleansing agency —... | |
 | John Bailey Denton - 1877 - 534 lehte
...and thus altogether transforming, as well as for merely separating, the filth of dirty water. A field of porous soil irrigated intermittently virtually performs an act of respiration, copying on au enormous scale the lung action of a breathing animal, for it is alternately receiving and expiring... | |
 | Hugo Ziemssen - 1879 - 818 lehte
...analogous to that experienced by blood in passing through the lungs in the act of breathing. A field of porous soil, irrigated intermittently, virtually...act of respiration, copying on an enormous scale the lung-action of a breathing animal; for it is alternately receiving and expiring air, and thus dealing,... | |
 | John Bailey Denton - 1881 - 116 lehte
...intermittent merely separating the filth of dirty water. A field of porous soil irri- fl^ration"1 gated intermittently, virtually performs an act of respiration,...dealing as an oxidising agent with the filthy fluid which is trickling through it. To this chemical property must be added another cleansing agency —... | |
 | Henry Aubrey Husband - 1883 - 642 lehte
...analogous to that experienced by blood iu passing through the lungs in the act of breathing. A field of porous soil, irrigated intermittently, virtually...action of a breathing animal; for it is alternately 2K receiving and expiring air, and thus dealing, as an oxidising agent, with the filthy fluid passing... | |
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