Cases illustrative of the beneficial effects of the clorurets of oxides of sodium and calcium, of the Chevalier Labarraque, of Paris : being the most powerful and effectual general and local antiseptics in the practice of physic and surgery / by J. G. F. Hassel.

  • Hassel J. G. F.
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[1827]
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Credit: Cases illustrative of the beneficial effects of the clorurets of oxides of sodium and calcium, of the Chevalier Labarraque, of Paris : being the most powerful and effectual general and local antiseptics in the practice of physic and surgery / by J. G. F. Hassel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    CHLORUR. OXYD. CALC. Take Quick Lime and slack it in a little water, until it has spontaneously fallen into powder. Mix this damp powder with a twentieth part of Hydroch- lorate of Soda, and place it in stone bottles of a cylindrical form, in which the Chloruret is taken up. This gas is separated from a mixture resembling that used for preparing Chlor. Oxyd. Sod. Several ap- paratus’ are placed near one another, as circumstances require, always taking care to let the Chloruret arrive slowly into each; in fact, that the combinations may take place successively. This is necessary for the expected result of the operation. The hydrated lime, when sufficiently charged with Chloruret becomes wet, and by this circumstance the operation is known to be nearly ended. To try the degree of saturation, take one part of the said Chloruret, and divide it in one bundled and thirty parts of water, and this solu- tion ought to discolour three parts and a half of the sulphate of indigo. The Hydrochlorate of Soda, which is added to the Hydrated Lime, has appeared necessary to facilitate the absorption of the Chloruret,