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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    persons were preserved from the plague during that dreadful epi- demic, which cost Aleppo no less than twenty-five thousand lives in the space of four months. His excellency, the minister of the inte- rior, has had the kindness to transmit me, by his letter of December 31, 1827, a copy of these valuable documents, which I shall consign to the pages of my next publication. 4. By immersion in chlorated water anatomical pieces can be preserved for a long time in very hot climates. REMARK. It may, perhaps, appear surprising that I attribute so many prop- erties to the chloride; but they have all been substantiated by facts, and it is on the authority of these facts that I publish these instruc- tions, for the sole purpose of preventing the evils, that might result from an unskilful use of it. I hope soon to lay before the public a number of other uses, not less important than those I have already published, and thus to justify the honorable suffrage of the Society for the Encouragement of National Industry, which, at its general sitting of October 30, 1822, decreed me a prize, which was followed by a resolve of the counselor of state, prefect of police, under date of October 19, 1823, directing the establishment of my process of disinfection at la Morgue, and with the police agents of the metrop- olis. I hope likewise to justify the no less honorable testimony of the Royal Institute of France, which awarded me a prize of three thou- sand francs at its public sitting of June 20, 1825. Adopting the in- structions of this illustrious body, the minister of the interior, by his circular to all the prefects, dated October 17, 1825, was pleased to direct the use of the chlorides as disinfecting agents, and as means of cleansing the lazarettoes, prisons and other unhealthy places. The counselor of state, director general of the public works at Paris, has likewise ordered the use of the same disinfecting agents in the nume- rous establishments subject to his direction. The authentic results, when obtained, will be presented to the public.