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Stuff You Missed in History Class

John Evelyn's 'Fumifugium'

Stuff You Missed in History Class

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, History

4.224.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

"Fumifugium" was a treatise on air pollution written in 1661. In addition to warning about the dangers of coal smoke, John Evelyn wrote this work to improve the reputation of King Charles II.

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0:47.1

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1:04.2

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1:09.9

Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of I Heart Radio.

1:17.9

Hello and welcome to the podcast.

1:19.3

I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

1:20.5

And I'm Holly Fry.

1:28.8

While I was working on our episode on Ricketts, I stumbled across a reference to a work I had never heard of before by someone I do know about, but in a different context. And that was Fumafugium. We're just,

1:37.3

that's how we're going to say it. FumaFugium. Who knows how he wanted it to be pronounced. That was

1:42.6

written by John Evelyn in 1661, and I knew of

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