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/></a><figcaption>David Boswell Reid</figcaption></figure> <p>Prof <b>David Boswell Reid</b> MD <a href="/wiki/FRSE" class="mw-redirect" title="FRSE">FRSE</a> FRCPE (1805 – 5 April 1863) was a British physician, chemist and inventor. Through reports on <a href="/wiki/Public_hygiene" class="mw-redirect" title="Public hygiene">public hygiene</a> and ventilation projects in public buildings, he made a reputation in the field of <a href="/wiki/Sanitation" title="Sanitation">sanitation</a>. He has been called the "grandfather of <a href="/wiki/Air-conditioning" class="mw-redirect" title="Air-conditioning">air-conditioning</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Boswell_Reid&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Reid was born in Edinburgh in June 1805, the second son of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_Reid_(author)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peter Reid (author) (page does not exist)">Peter Reid</a> (1777–1838) and his wife, Christian Arnot, eldest daughter of <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Arnot" title="Hugo Arnot">Hugo Arnot</a> of Balcormo, and was the elder brother of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hugo_Reid_(author)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hugo Reid (author) (page does not exist)">Hugo Reid</a>. When born the family appear to have lived with Peter Reid Sr., a vintner at Milne's Square (now known as Milne's Court) off the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Mile" title="Royal Mile">Royal Mile</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father gained his doctorate as a physician c.1810 and in 1815 the family was living independently at 7 Roxburgh Place in Edinburgh's South Side.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>David was educated at the High School<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in Edinburgh then studied Medicine at <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Edinburgh University">Edinburgh University</a>, obtained his medical diploma on 12 July 1830, and was admitted a fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_College_of_Physicians,_Edinburgh" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh">Royal College of Physicians</a>, Edinburgh, on 2 August 1831.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:David_Boswell_Reid_laboratory.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/David_Boswell_Reid_laboratory.jpg/220px-David_Boswell_Reid_laboratory.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="125" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/David_Boswell_Reid_laboratory.jpg/330px-David_Boswell_Reid_laboratory.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/David_Boswell_Reid_laboratory.jpg/440px-David_Boswell_Reid_laboratory.jpg 2x" data-file-width="850" data-file-height="483" /></a><figcaption>Chemistry laboratory, from Reid's <i>Brief Outline Illustrations of the Alterations in the House of Commons</i> (1837)</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1831 Reid began to give classes in practical chemistry. He was soon appointed assistant to <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Charles_Hope" title="Thomas Charles Hope">Thomas Charles Hope</a>, professor of chemistry at the university.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The same year he was elected a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh" title="Royal Society of Edinburgh">Royal Society of Edinburgh</a> his sole proposer being Hope. He was living at this time at 37 Nicholson Street, described as "experimental rooms" for Edinburgh University.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1833, however, he had a disagreement with Hope. At this point he set up a laboratory of his own.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Reid hoped to have a chair in Practical Chemistry set up in his favour; but he came up against <a href="/wiki/Robert_Christison" title="Robert Christison">Robert Christison</a> as Dean of the Medical Faculty who was opposed, disliking the effect on the existing chair, and regarding Reid's teaching as too mechanical. Reid complained in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Scotsman" title="The Scotsman">The Scotsman</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1835 at the <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a> meeting of the <a href="/wiki/British_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Science" class="mw-redirect" title="British Association for the Advancement of Science">British Association for the Advancement of Science</a> Reid talked on reform of education in chemistry, and was asked to give evidence to the committee under <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Wyse" title="Thomas Wyse">Thomas Wyse</a> then looking into education in Ireland.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One of his chemistry students was <a href="/wiki/Macquorn_Rankine" class="mw-redirect" title="Macquorn Rankine">Macquorn Rankine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Reid continued to give private chemistry classes until he moved to London in 1847.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reid_the_Ventilator">Reid the Ventilator</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Boswell_Reid&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Reid the Ventilator"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Reid invited participants at the 1834 meeting of the British Association, in Edinburgh, to visit his laboratory; and among those who took up the offer were some members of parliament. Fortuitously there was a very destructive fire at the <a href="/wiki/Houses_of_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Houses of Parliament">Houses of Parliament</a> at <a href="/wiki/Westminster" title="Westminster">Westminster</a> later in 1834, and Reid was brought in as a consultant.<sup id="cite_ref-Porter_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Porter-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He did innovative work in the temporary accommodation on <a href="/wiki/Ventilation_(architecture)" title="Ventilation (architecture)">forced ventilation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When the new building work started on the same site, he was in a strong position to carry out plans that were systematic as far as ventilation was concerned. He was remembered as "Dr. Reid the ventilator" in the twenty-first century in discussions of <a href="/wiki/Energy_conservation" title="Energy conservation">energy efficiency</a>, by <a href="/wiki/Lord_Wade_of_Chorlton" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Wade of Chorlton">Lord Wade of Chorlton</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Central_Tower,_Palace_of_Westminster.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Central_Tower%2C_Palace_of_Westminster.jpg/220px-Central_Tower%2C_Palace_of_Westminster.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="391" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Central_Tower%2C_Palace_of_Westminster.jpg/330px-Central_Tower%2C_Palace_of_Westminster.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Central_Tower%2C_Palace_of_Westminster.jpg/440px-Central_Tower%2C_Palace_of_Westminster.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2432" data-file-height="4320" /></a><figcaption>The Central Tower of the Palace of Westminster. This octagonal spire was for ventilation purposes, in the more complex system imposed by Reid on Barry, in which it was to draw air out of the Palace. The design was for aesthetic disguise of its function.<sup id="cite_ref-Porter_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Porter-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>In January 1840 Reid was appointed by the committee for the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a> dealing with the construction of the replacement for the Houses of Parliament that had burned down six years earlier. The post was in the capacity of ventilation engineer, in effect; and with its creation there began a long series of quarrels between Reid and <a href="/wiki/Charles_Barry" title="Charles Barry">Charles Barry</a>, the architect.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Reid's ventilation system was adopted reluctantly by Barry in this new <a href="/wiki/Palace_of_Westminster" title="Palace of Westminster">Palace of Westminster</a>. Reid was engaged for five years at Westminster on this work.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Reid made a reputation by his work in Westminster. He was commissioned for an <a href="/wiki/Air_quality" class="mw-redirect" title="Air quality">air quality</a> survey in 1837 by the <a href="/wiki/Leeds_and_Selby_Railway" title="Leeds and Selby Railway">Leeds and Selby Railway</a> in their tunnel.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The steam vessels built for the <a href="/wiki/Niger_expedition_of_1841" title="Niger expedition of 1841">Niger expedition of 1841</a> were fitted with ventilation systems based on Reid's Westminster model.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Air was dried, filtered and passed over charcoal. The system proved a cumbersome failure.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A detailed account was published by <a href="/wiki/James_Ormiston_McWilliam" title="James Ormiston McWilliam">James Ormiston McWilliam</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Reid's ventilation method was also applied more fully to <a href="/wiki/St._George%27s_Hall,_Liverpool" class="mw-redirect" title="St. George's Hall, Liverpool">St. George's Hall, Liverpool</a>, the only building, he said, in which his system was completely carried out.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In this case the architect <a href="/wiki/Harvey_Lonsdale_Elmes" title="Harvey Lonsdale Elmes">Harvey Lonsdale Elmes</a> requested in 1841 that Reid should be involved in ventilation design.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1852 Reid was dismissed from his position at the Houses of Parliament.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His immediate replacement was <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Meeson" title="Alfred Meeson">Alfred Meeson</a>, who had been assistant to Barry.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Leading Tory politicians including <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli" title="Benjamin Disraeli">Benjamin Disraeli</a> had had enough of his feud with Barry, and <a href="/wiki/Edward_Smith-Stanley,_14th_Earl_of_Derby" title="Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby">Lord Derby</a> thought him a charlatan.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In an extended process of settlement, Reid received substantial compensation for his dismissal.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Royal_Commission_on_public_health">Royal Commission on public health</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Boswell_Reid&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Royal Commission on public health"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1843 Reid sat on the 13-man <a href="/wiki/Royal_Commission" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Commission">Royal Commission</a> to inquire into "the state of large towns and populous districts in England and Wales with reference to the causes of disease among the inhabitants, and into the best means of promoting and securing public health".<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With the other medical men <a href="/wiki/James_Ranald_Martin" title="James Ranald Martin">James Ranald Martin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Owen" title="Richard Owen">Richard Owen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lyon_Playfair" class="mw-redirect" title="Lyon Playfair">Lyon Playfair</a>, he made up the dominant group on the committee.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He wrote the 1845 <i>Report on the state of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and other towns</i> (HMSO). His visits had included areas of great poverty and squalor, such as <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sandgate,_Newcastle-upon-Tyne&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sandgate, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (page does not exist)">Sandgate</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It had immediate effects. For example, his findings on <a href="/wiki/Sunderland,_Tyne_and_Wear" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunderland, Tyne and Wear">Sunderland</a> and <a href="/wiki/South_Shields" title="South Shields">South Shields</a> led to the setting up in 1846 of the Sunderland Water Company.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His observation on <a href="/wiki/Cholera" title="Cholera">cholera</a>, that there were no privies in the mines, was mentioned in the celebrated paper <i>On the pathology and mode of communication of cholera</i> of <a href="/wiki/John_Snow_(physician)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Snow (physician)">John Snow</a> in 1849.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_the_USA">In the USA</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Boswell_Reid&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: In the USA"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1856 Reid moved to the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His stature as an author on sanitation was recognised by the physician Elisha Harris writing in Reid's <i>Ventilation in American Dwellings</i> (1858).<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Reid was brought as a professor of physiology and hygiene to the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin-Madison" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Wisconsin-Madison">University of Wisconsin-Madison</a> in 1859 by <a href="/wiki/Henry_Barnard" title="Henry Barnard">Henry Barnard</a>, and then dismissed after a year.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He then became government medical inspector to the sanitary commission of the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_5-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a> new military hospitals were erected throughout the country, and Reid was about to leave Washington on a tour of inspection when he came down with a fatal illness. He died at Washington on 5 April 1863.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_5-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reid's_Theories"><span id="Reid.27s_Theories"></span>Reid's Theories</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Boswell_Reid&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Reid's Theories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Reid was regarded as an expert on ventilation, but his views differed from <a href="/wiki/Neil_Arnott" title="Neil Arnott">Neil Arnott</a>, another leader in theories of air and fever. He also regarded the <a href="/wiki/Susceptible_individual" title="Susceptible individual">susceptible individual</a> in a different way than <a href="/wiki/Southwood_Smith" class="mw-redirect" title="Southwood Smith">Southwood Smith</a>, with more weight placed on predisposition.<sup id="cite_ref-Hamlin_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hamlin-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a work on public hygiene by John Bell M.D. of <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a> for the New York Board of Councilmen, Reid's views on <a href="/wiki/Carbonic_acid_gas" class="mw-redirect" title="Carbonic acid gas">carbonic acid gas</a> in old graveyards and "vitiated" air are quoted; and on "those subtle poisons called <a href="/wiki/Miasma_theory" title="Miasma theory">miasms</a>" he is said to have reported that he "has detected their escape from graves more than twenty feet deep".<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Reid took "moving air" to be important to health, and emphasised the health hazards of "defective ventilation".<sup id="cite_ref-Hamlin_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hamlin-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Boswell_Reid&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He was author of: </p> <ul><li><i>Rudiments of Chemistry: with illustrations of the chemical phenomena of daily life</i> (1836)<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Elements of Chemistry</i> (1837)</li> <li><i>Textbook for Students of Chemistry</i>(1839).</li></ul> <p>In 1844 he published <i>Illustrations of the Theory and Practice of Ventilation</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_5-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Boswell_Reid&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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