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David Boswell Reid was born in Edinburgh, the second son of Peter Reid, a physician distinguished for his scholarship and literary attainments and noted as an education reformer, and of his wife, Christian, eldest daughter of Hugo Arnot of Balcormo, advocate and antiquarian.
David was educated in the Edinburgh high school and at the University of Edinburgh. His introduction to chemistry came through a short period of employment in the plant of a manufacturing chemist, and he commenced the study of it in 1820 under Dr. John Murray.
In 1825, after spending some time abroad, he began a series of private classes in chemistry, in which he correlated the study of theory with laboratory experimentation by the pupil himself. The following year found him a medical student at the University and a member of the Royal Medical Society, an organization of talented students who sought to improve themselves by writing, debating, and discussing papers on medical subjects.
Of this society he was senior president in 1826-27. He received the degree of M. D. in July 1830.
The success of his venture as an independent lecturer on "practical" chemistry had led to his appointment, two years earlier, as assistant to Prof. Thomas Charles Hope in the University.
Differences arose between them after Reid had become a "privileged" teacher, and in 1833 he proposed to the governing board the establishment of a professorship of practical chemistry. His request denied, Reid resigned his position and became a private lecturer on chemistry and sanitation in a well-equipped and efficiently ventilated laboratory and lecture room of his own design. Theoretical and applied chemistry as well as reforms in the sanitation of private dwellings as a means of preventing disease, and observations based upon his own medical practice, comprised the curricula of his school. His venture proved to be popular and successful. It led to an opportunity for performing a public service for which, however, adequate reward and recognition was not to be accorded him.
Destruction of the Houses of Parliament in 1834 brought him a commission the following year to put to a practical test in the temporary Houses his principles of ventilation and acoustics. The success of this "first systematic plan of ventilation ever carried out in any public building" led to his removal to London in 1840 to arrange and superintend the ventilation and the lighting of the new Houses. Differences arose between him and the architect relating to the installation of his system, with the result that Reid was relieved from duty in 1852, although his plans in their main features were carried on. That his system was sound was demonstrated in the successful ventilation of St. George's Hall, Liverpool, and numerous other public buildings, jails, and ships.
In 1855 he removed to the United States. Here his lectures on the progress of architecture in relation to ventilation and the general preservation of health brought him in 1859 appointment to the faculty of the infant University of Wisconsin as professor of physiology and hygiene and director of the museum of practical sciences. A Polytechnic School was then contemplated, but the condition of the University's finances made the project impossible, with the result that Reid found himself without a chair early in the fall of 1860.
His next place of residence was St. Paul, Minnesota, where he attempted unsuccessfully to arouse interest in the plan which miscarried in Wisconsin. America apparently had few opportunities to offer a man of his peculiar training and experience; but one finally came early in 1863 in the form of an inspectorship of the military hospitals erected throughout the country. He died in Washington, D. C. , however, while about to leave on a tour of inspection.
Through reports on public hygiene and ventilation projects in public buildings, he made a reputation in the field of sanitation. He has been called the "grandfather of air-conditioning". In addition to pamphlets and scientific articles Reid published the following textbooks on chemistry: Academical Examinations in the Principles of Chemistry (1825); Elements of Practical Chemistry (1829); Text-Book for Students of Chemistry (1834); Rudiments of Chemistry (1836); Study of Chemistry (1836); Elements of Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical (1837); Elements of Chemistry and Electricity (1850). He was also the author of two treatises on ventilation: Illustrations of the Theory and Practice of Ventilation (1844) and Ventilation in American Dwellings (1858).
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He married Elizabeth Brown in 1834; they had five children.
