Volume 2

An account of the experiment made at the desire of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty on board the Union hospital ship, to determine the effect of the nitrous acid in destroying contagion, and the safety with which it may be employed. In a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Earl Spencer / [James Carmichael Smyth].

  • Smyth, James Carmichael, 1741-1821.
Date:
1796
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Credit: An account of the experiment made at the desire of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty on board the Union hospital ship, to determine the effect of the nitrous acid in destroying contagion, and the safety with which it may be employed. In a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Earl Spencer / [James Carmichael Smyth]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ) L »6‘ 1 of confidence in its efficacy, and approach* ed the cradles cf the infe&ed with left dread of being attacked with the diforder ; fo that the fick were better attended, and the duty of the hofpital was more regularly, and more cheerfully, performed. In fhort, a pleafing gleam of hope feemed now to call: its cheering influence, over that ge* neral defpondency which was before evi¬ dently pictured in every countenance, from the dread and horror each indivi¬ dual^ naturally entertained of being, per¬ haps, the next yidtim to the malignant powers of a virulent contagion. : - On the twenty-eighth, the fumigation was repeated morning and evening, in the fame manner as on the preceding day, and with the fame pleafing effect, deftroying the offenflve fmell, and purifying the gene¬ ral air of the hofpital. But there was, \n particular places, a conftant fource of bad fmell, which was not eafily overcome, and which was occafioned by the necejjaries. ' Theft