An essay on the use of chlorurets of oxide of sodium and of lime, as powerful disinfecting agents, and of the chloruret of oxide of sodium, more especially as a remedy of considerable efficacy, in the treatment of hospital gangrene; phagedenic, syphilitic and ill conditioned ulcers; mortification; and various diseases. Dedicated by permission to the Right Honourable Robert Peel / [Thomas Alcock].

  • Alcock, Thomas, 1784-1883.
Date:
1827
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Credit: An essay on the use of chlorurets of oxide of sodium and of lime, as powerful disinfecting agents, and of the chloruret of oxide of sodium, more especially as a remedy of considerable efficacy, in the treatment of hospital gangrene; phagedenic, syphilitic and ill conditioned ulcers; mortification; and various diseases. Dedicated by permission to the Right Honourable Robert Peel / [Thomas Alcock]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    worthy functionary has never ceased to accord every time that he has required the attendance of M. Labarraque on objects of public utility. The following passages are translated from the circular which M. Labarraque refers and a copy of the original is subjoined. “ The procedure of M. Labarraque presents incontestable advantages beyond the employment of gazeous chlorine, and beyond all the disinfectants which have been recommended to this day. The author of this-process has made the most nu¬ merous and varied applications, and the success which he has obtained has merited honourable commendation. “The memoir which 1 transmit you indicates some of the cases in which the chlorurets of lime and of oxide of sodium have been used with the greatest success to destroy insalu¬ brious exhalations, and to remedy the accidents of which they are the cause. From hence it is easy to deduce the disin¬ fecting properties with which these substances are endowed, and experience proves in effect that we may usefully employ the Chlorurets in question in lazarettos, in hospitals, in prisons, in depots of mendicity, in dissecting rooms, in nume¬ rous workshops, and particularly in those in which operations on animal substances are carried on; that we may employ them with advantage to disinfect places inhabited by persons labouring under small pox, and to attenuate the effects of epi¬ demics, of contagions, of epizooties.* It is proper more es¬ pecially, to make use of them when we are under the necessi¬ ty of disinterring corpses by order of the judiciary authority, when diverse circumstances render it requisite to retard the interment, or accelerate the developement of putrefaction ; in fine they are efficacious remedies in certain cases of asphyxia.’* * (Diseases of Cattle.)