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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    not from the contagious fever, that being now totally extinft; but from fome being brought in a dying ftate, others in the fcurvy, the moft deplorable cafes I ever faw, added to which, feveral hedtic patients, who had been declining fome time, hap- , pened to die at that particular period. I hope we fhall have no return of fo dread¬ ful a calamity. I remain, a ' Sir, Your moft obedient Servant, &c. (Signed) A. Bassan, ExtraB