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    "title": "Report S: Hints for the Control and Prevention of Infectious Diseases, in Camps, Transports, and Hospitals",
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    "ocrText": "33\n32\nReady method.-Pour dilute hydrochloric, sulphuric, nitric, or acetic\nThe topical applications of the acids, particularly of the nitric acid, in\nacid upon chlorides of lime, zinc, or soda. This may be done gradually by\narresting gangrene, are well understood by surgeons. Nitrous acid is a\nmeans of a glass or lead syphon, or by the capillary syphon of lamp-wick,\nvaluable antiseptic, and the production and application of its fumes con-\ndropping the acid upon the chloride, if desirable to evolve the chlorine\nstituted the famous disinfecting process of Dr. Carmichael Smyth.\nsteadily for many hours.\nThe fumes of nitrous acid that so long had fame for disinfecting pur-\nposes in the barracks, hospitals, and navy of Great Britain may be\nCheap method.-Mix 6 parts of peroxide of manganese with 8 parts\nreadily produced by heating a mixture of nitrate of potassa and sulphuric\nof table salt (chloride of sodium) in a lead or iron vessel, which should be\nacid in an iron or porcelain dish. Persons who resort to this method of\nset freely within another vessel of larger capacity pour upon the mix-\nfumigation, should bear in mind the fact that strong fumes of nitrous\nture of manganese and salt 13 parts of sulphuric acid, which may be\nacid are dangerously irritating to the throat and lungs. These fuming\ndiluted with water to abate the rapidity of the evolution of the gas.\nacids are powerful oxidizers, but their avidity for water, together with\nHeat the vessel containing this mixture by means of hot water or steam,\ntheir peculiarities of chemical affinity, render their value as disinfectants\nif more rapid evolution of the gas is required.\nsomewhat uncertain.\nOrdinary method.-Mi: four parts of fuming hydrochloric (muriatic)\nNitrate of Lead.-Practical considerations place this salt at the head\nacid with one part of coarse powder of peroxide of manganese, adding\nof odorless disinfecting salts most available for certain local applications,\nwater, as may be desired, to abate the rapidity of evolution. Apply\nsuch as deodorizing a close apartment, and the bedding, etc., of sick per-\nmoderate heat. The vessel may be of a kind to permit the use of the\nsons, by means of a solution distributed on shallow vessels or upon\nacid and the heat. The heat, however, by this method, is not indis-\nsaturated cloths. The nitrate of lead is the basis of \"Ledoyen's liquid.\"\npensable.\nThe permanganate of potassa is far the most efficient salt of this kind,\nA very neat method of evolving chlorine in hospitals and transports,\nand its cost alone should limit its employment. It is a chemical agent\nis to put a few ounces of the black oxide of manganese into a stout glass\nof different and far greater powers than any of the metallic salts in this\nbottle of large size, rig a bulbous pipette to a perforated cork or stopper,\nthird class.\nand fitting an india-rubber bulb upon the headless bulb of the pipette,\nfill the pipette with muriatic acid, and evolve the chlorine at pleasure by\nChloride of Zinc.-Though more powerfully antiseptic than nitrate of\noccasional pressure upon the elastic cap.\nlead, it is not as valuable a deodorant. It is most to be valued for its\nproperty of promptly arresting putrefactive processes. As 'Sir Wm.\nBromine and its compounds.-This most powerful antiseptic has re-\nBurnett's disinfectant,\" it is widely known.\ncently been brought into requisition in the military hospitals as a special\nBoth this salt, and that of lead, last mentioned, may be employed to\ndisinfectant and arrester of gangrene. It is applied both topically and dif-\ndelay decomposition in a corpse, in the absence of an embalmer. This is\nfusively. Bromine is exceedingly penetrating and energetic in its action,\nbest accomplished by wrapping the dead body in a folded sheet that is\nand consequently is to be manipulated and applied with proper caution.\nsaturated with either of these salts.\nIt is principally employed in its pure liquid form, or in combination with\nbromide of potassium. Special caution should be used not to respire the\nThe Proto-chloride and the Proto-sulphate of -These are valuable\nstrong fumes or any pulverized compound of bromine, as its effects when\nand very cheap agents for aiding in the control of ammoniacal and sul-\ninhaled are suffocating. The following concise statement of the best\nphuretted effluvia. Being soluble, and very cheap, these salts are capable\nmethods for applying this potent disinfectant, we quote from Dr. M.\nof varied and convenient applications, separately, or in combination with\nGOLDSMITH, Medical Director of Military Hospitals at Louisville, Ky., to\nother deodorizing materials.\nwhom the medical profession is largely indebted for its successful intro-\nduction as a topical and prophylactic agent for the control of hospital\nChlorine and its alkaline compounds.-The common preparations of\n)\ngangrene and erysipelas:\nchlorinated soda and chloride of lime act with great efficiency when the\ncarbonic, sulphureted, or ammoniacal gases are brought into contact\nDIRECTIONS FOR Use.\nwith them. As their special uses require no explanation in this place,\n1. For Fumigation.-Place vessels, containing one ounce of the solu-\nwe simply append brief directions for generating chlorine gas where it\ntion at different points of the ward, and in number sufficient to secure in\nmay be required more immediately and copiously than it would be given\nthe latter the constant presence of the odor of bromine.\noff by the alkaline chlorides or hypochlorites."
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