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IV. Observations upon the Employment of M. Guyton- 

 MoRVEAu's Fuinigations for preventing contagious In* 

 fection. By M. A, Hedouih, Physician*, 



1. HE prison of Mont Sanit Michel, from its situation, 

 stood more in need that any other of some chemical agent 

 to correct the numerous locial vices in point of salubrity. 



Putrid and malignant fevers, so familiar among individuals 

 crowded together in the same place, using food of slender 

 succulency, and overwhelmed with grief and sorrows, raged 

 with unceasing fury in the prison of Mont Saint Michel. 



Juniper berries and incense were frequently burned in the 

 cells ; but instead of changing the atmosphere and neutrali- 

 zing the vapours exhaled from the bodies of the sick prisoners, 

 these means only disguised the sniell. From the moment 

 M. Morveau's method was resorted to, the number of these 

 fevers, and of course the mortality, sensibly diminished. . 



In ocder to be convinced of these truths, it is sufficient, in 

 my opinion, to inspect the necrology of this prison, and to 

 compare the mortality of various years, having an eye to 

 the increase and diminution of the number of prisoners. 



Necrology of the Prison of Mont Saint Michel, from the 

 Year 1 802 . to the Year 1 807. 



♦ Ann^ de ChimiCy torn. hii. p. 113, 



f Jn this year the regular use of fumigations was ordered, and the prison 

 was furnished with two sets of jVI. Dumontier's apparatus. 



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