On the application of sulphurous acid gas to the prevention, limitation, and cure of contagious diseases / by James Dewar.

  • Dewar, Sir James, (1842-1923)
Date:
1866
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Credit: On the application of sulphurous acid gas to the prevention, limitation, and cure of contagious diseases / by James Dewar. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to do our very utmost to remove every sanitary defect, the ignoring of which, it has been over and over again proved, invites their approach and favours their dissemination. Next comes the question of limitation; and a word of explanation will at once show the importance of intelligent atten- tion to the means recommended for this important end. The best authorities tell us that it is in the howel discharges that the germs of such diseases exist, and that it is in these, upon exposure to atmospheric air, that they more especially multiply, with a rapidity and to an extent that is inconceivable ; hence the unspeakable im- portance of having such instantly disinfected by some convenient and trustworthy agent. In either diluted Sulphuric or Sulphurous Acids will be found an economical and in- fallible remedy, which ought upon every occasion to be and at once had recourse to.