Disinfection and hygiene : by means of oxygen in a nascent and active condition, or artificial ozone / by Henry Bollmann Condy.

  • Condy, Henry Bollmann.
Date:
1860
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    The proper use of antiseptics is by their application to fresh i organised substances to prevent decay, while that of the true dis- infectants, when applied to decaying organic matter is, to restore freshness, by the destruction of the offensive products of decom- position. The employment, therefore, of antiseptic or pickling , agents for the purposes of disinfection cannot hut lead to deceptive results, just as the use of true oxidizing disinfectants: must produce disappointment when employed to do the work of antiseptics. “ Especially as regards the offensive odours which arise from house-refuse and other putrid accumulations, it must be remembered. that the so-called deodorizers can seldom do more than palliate the evil. The distinction between deodorizers and true disinfectants must be borne in mind. The second class of disinfectants, namely, those which less or: more rapidly promote complete oxidation of organic matter, are the: true disinfectants,, and properly so designated. Manganates and permanganates of soda and potash have been: suggested as disinfectiug agents by Mr. Condy of Battersea, who has- prepared a cheap form of their solutions, under the title of Natural Disinfectants. A report on their mode of action, by Dr. Hofmann, will be found in the Appendix A.” Appendix A.—“ The manganates and permanganates destroy the.: smelling substances completely; containing, as they do, a large quan- tity of oxygen, the very agent which accomplishes all natural disin- fection, they give rise to an actual process of combustion, in conse-' quence of which the cause of the odour or putrefaction is permanently removed.”—(Lindsey Blyth’s Minute on Disinfection, Laboratory, General Board of Health, Whitehall, January, 1857.) “ Mr. Condy has applied the idea of condensed oxygen, rendered still more powerful by being also nascent, to the disinfection of putrid matter, and by a happy scientific idea, has produced a very beautiful, liquid, completely destructive of putrid matter, and there are many cases, especially in private houses, where it will be the most convenient of any to use.”—(Dr. Angus Smith, at Meeting of the Society of Arts,- 22nd April, 1857.) “ Disinfectant and Deodorising Fluids.—We were afforded an opportunity, on Saturday, of witnessing some very interesting and important experiments made at Messrs. Condy's Chemical Colour Works, Battersea, with the view of testing the comparative merits oij several compounds or fluids now used as disinfectants and deodorizers. The importance, in a sanitary point of view, of making chemical science ; subservient, in a practical manner, in cases where contagion may be i arrested, if not prevented, is now so generally admitted, that all public i institutions, hospitals, and ships, are provided with some agent for the purpose. Those agents have, however, been open to the grave objection