Thermantidote

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Thermantidote \Ther*man"ti*dote\, n. [Gr. ? heat + E. antidote.]
     A device for circulating and cooling the air, consisting
     essentially of a kind of roasting fan fitted in a window and
     incased in wet tatties. [India]
  
           Will you bring me to book on the mountains, or where


           the thermantidotes play?                 --Kipling.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]