A treatise on the means of purifying infected air, of preventing contagion, and arresting its progress / by L. B. Guyton-Morveau ; translated from the French by R. Hall.

  • Guyton de Morveau, Louis-Bernard, 1737-1816.
Date:
1802
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    ( 22/ ) 172. Common vinegar, or the acetous acid may be ranked amongst the best purifiers fop substances that admit of being immersed in it, or which may be well washed with it: but it is not sufficiently volatile, either when cold, or even with the aid of heat, to be employed with advantage in the fumigation of confined apartments (No. loo). 173. The pyro-ligneous acid has an action very analagous to vinegar, but still more fee- ble*. (No. 102): neither can we hope to derive greater advantages from that which is disenr gaged by the actual combustion of certain ligneous substances. It is indeed susceptible of being diffused through a much greater space when the fire is managed in such a manner as to produce more smoke than flame; but in this case it is rendered much less active from the fuliginous particles which accompany it; arid the heat ceasing, it very soon subsides without leaving the air sensibly ameliorated. 174. Frequent fumigations with acetic acid, or radical vinegar, cannot be carried on in ex- tensive apartments without incurring a very considerable expence; but although it does * See note p. 13.5. Tr. not