Method of using the chlorides of soda, either for dressing ill-conditioned sores, or as a means of purifying unhealthy places, and of disinfecting animal substances. Transl. by Jacob Porter.

  • Labarraque, A. G. (Antoine Germain), 1777-1850.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Method of using the chlorides of soda, either for dressing ill-conditioned sores, or as a means of purifying unhealthy places, and of disinfecting animal substances. Transl. by Jacob Porter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    By sprinklings of water containing a fortieth of the chloride, one may disinfect, in a moment, the filthiest kennels, sewers and drains, privies, slaughter houses, markets for meat and for fish, manufacto- ries for glue and for cat-gut, and, generally, all places, that are infect- ed with animal exhalations. Butchers' stalls should be sprinkled, in the hot season, with the chlorated water, and, by this means, the meat will be preserved for a long time unaltered. In butteries, especially in the country, where it is often necessary to lay in provisions for a week, the meat may be preserved, if care is taken to set on the floor a vessel containing some of the chlorated water, which it will be necessary to renew daily. If the meat has become fetid, a simple immersion in water containing a fortieth of the chloride, will neutralize the smell, and, after being washed in pure water, it may be cooked and eaten without injury to the health. JH O T E S . 1. Persons affected with the nervous asthma breathe more freely in apartments that contain the chlorated water; and it has been ob- served that attacks of this disease are less frequent with such as take care to keep in their sleeping rooms, during the night, vessels of the chloride diluted in eight parts of water. 2. The Council of Health of the lazaretto of Marseilles resolved, in December, 1825, that the chlorides should be substituted for fu- migations in the lazarettoes, for purifying passengers and their bag- gage, also patients attacked with the plague, and other suspected persons, as well as for the daily cleansing of ships at quarantine. In May and August, 1826, the quarantine physician and health offi- cers, who attended the patients attacked with the sea typhus, were preserved from the disease, simply by the use of the chlorides; while, in 1818, in the same place and under the same circumstan- ces, the typhus was communicated to the health officers and quaran- tine physician, notwithstanding the daily use of the Guiton fumiga- tions. 3. Official reports, sent to the French government by the consul oeneral of the king at Aleppo, who was provided with some bottles of mv chlorides, certify, that by the use of them, a great number of