Remarks on deodorization and disinfection, and on Dr. Sir William Burnett's disinfecting fluid, the solution of the chloride of zinc / by T. Stratton.

  • Stratton, T. (Thomas), 1816-1886.
Date:
1848
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Credit: Remarks on deodorization and disinfection, and on Dr. Sir William Burnett's disinfecting fluid, the solution of the chloride of zinc / by T. Stratton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    such beneficial results. If we suppose the case of a fever-hospital, throughout the whole of which the fluid had been used, and that after this, the mortality became less, some might say that this arose from the disease be- coming milder; but, in the instance given above, the experiment is more decided, the trial is clearer, and the mortality in fluidized wards, is compared with that in non-fluidtzed wards, between the same dates. IV. Chloride of zinc has been given inwardly in the dose of a grain or less, two or three times a day, in cho- rea, epilepsy, &c* V. In Surgery, chloride of zinc is occasionally used. I lately saw a case of lupus, where the Burnett fluid (undiluted) was found to be as effectual and a more convenient form than the solid chloride of zinc. The Burnett fluid, diluted, (1 to 130 parts of water) has been found very beneficial as an application to chro- nic and scrofulous ulcers, (by Mr. Erasmus Wilson, Dr. Allan, and others)f ; and in mercurial sore mouth, (by Mr. Flynn.) The fluid diluted (1 to 60 or 80) is useful as a lotion in erysipelas, and as a bath in psora, prurigo, pruritus, and other cutaneous diseases. It has also been used as an injection in gonorrhoea. I have no doubt it will be found an excellent remedy, much diluted (as 1 to 120) as an injection in foetid otorrhoea, and as a gar- gle in some throat diseases. Diluted, 1 to 140, it re- moves the foetor from mortification taking place as after frost-bite. The fluid undiluted, or with an equal part of water, and introduced on the point of a pen into the ca- vity of a tooth, is a good application in some cases of tooth-ache. The action of the diluted fluid on ulcers is two-fold—it removes the foetor, and also it improves the action of the sore in some alterative manner. * See Pcriera's Materia Medica, London, 1842, page 820. Dunglison's New Remedies, Philadelphia, 1846, page 6DU. And Wood and Bachc's U. S. Dispensatory, Philadelphia, 1847, page 1215, t Reports on the Solution of Chloride of Zinc, London, 1847.