Instructions and observatíons concerning the use of the chlorides of soda and lime. ... / Translated by Jacob Porter.

  • Labarraque, A. G. (Antoine Germain), 1777-1850
Date:
1829
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    ON THE USE OF THE CHLORIDES OF SODA AND LIME. The disgrace, that deservedly attends those, who abuse the public credulity, by publishing to the world those works, in which they proclaim their wonderful remedies adapted to the cure of all diseases, prevented me from printing any instructions concerning the use of the chlorides in me¬ dicine at the time when the first experiments were made with these agents, notwithstanding their happy effects. I limited myself, at that time, to making known my views, verbally or in writing, to the most respectable members of the profession, who could not find, in what had been publish¬ ed on this subject, any disclosures sufficiently extended; but the benefits of them were so constant, and had become so numerous, that, being requested on every side to give some directions concerning the employment of the chlorides, I found myself under the necessity of drawing up instructions to point out the manner of using them. These instructions had become otherwise indispensable for the purpose of spreading these powerful disinfecting agents in the Antilles and other coun¬ tries so often desolated by distressing and contagious dis¬ eases. The most useful discoveries frequently experience the great¬ est resistance in their adoption. It has, however, been other¬ wise with the chlorides ; for, soon after making fully known the result of my experiments on putrefaction, which were verified by the members of the Council of Health and seve¬ ral other learned men of the metropolis, the counsellor of state,prefect of police,approved of the instructions for disinfect¬ ing bodies removed to la Morgue, and directed me, by his reso¬ lution of October 19, 1823, to furnish the chloride necessary for the purpose. I supposed it would be useful, in order to in-