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Excerpt from Physical Effects of Compressed Air: And of the Causes of Pathological Symptoms Produced on Man, by Increased Atmospheric Pressure Employed for the Sinking of Piers, in the Construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge Over the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri
The first eleven chapters of this pamphlet were prepared for publication on the fifteenth of August, 1870. By unforeseen circumstances, however, its ap pearance was delayed, but the delay in its publication has not caused \me to alter anything advanced therein. The facts observed during the sinking of the caisson for the East abutment pier, and which are contained in Chapter XII, on the contrary, have confirmed me in my conclusions, as to the truth of the cause or causes of the physiological and pathological phenomena observed on the _men working in an over-condensed atmosphere.
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