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Excerpt from House-Plants as Sanitary Agents: Or, the of Growing Vegetation, to Health and Disease
The material relations of plant life to man recognized from the remotest antiquity - Plants prized by the ancients for their beauty and per fume - Historical sketch of their use as objects of decoration - Poetic allusions to Empire Flora - Living plants formerly regarded as un wholesome in sleeping-rooms - Plants not tolerated in the Sick-chamber in past time - Funereal plants of the ancient Greeks and Romans Subsequent departure from the opinion that plants have an injurious effect - Recent progress and the aim of Sanitary Science.
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