in the Epidemies of Cattle, 29 



Two other farmers of the same commune made a simi- 

 larly successful experiment. Their diseased flocks were al- 

 lowed to pasture along with the heahhy, the latter having 

 been previously fumigated in the folds, and no contagion 

 was communicated. The apparatus has of course become . 

 of general use in the department. 



2. The second fact was communicated to me by th6 di- 

 rectors of the hospitals at Besangion. 



Several hundred weights of meat had been left neglected 

 for some tinle in the cellar of the public hospital : it diffused 

 so infected a smell that it was impossible to enter the place 

 to carry it away, and a pitch-fork was used for that pur- 

 pose. They afterwards introduced into it, with the same 

 precautions, a flask of anti-contagious gas, the flap of 

 which was opened and the door of the cellar was closed. 

 When this flask was withdrawn a few hours afterwards, 

 there existed no smell whatever, except that which was 

 diffused by the oxy-muriatic. Its emanations having been 

 very strong, the window was opened, in order to procure a 

 current of fresh air. The cellar was then so completely 

 purified that fresh meat was pat into it and completely pre- 

 served. 



The stench occasioned by the carcase of a dead rat was 

 also destroyed in a few minutes, by the use of the same 

 apparatus. 



The hospitals of the department have been since provided 

 with the regular fumigating apparatus ; and glass bottles, 

 containing a supply of sulphuric acid, nitre, and sea-salt, are 

 placed in the halls, with which the fumigations are repeated 

 every evening. The benefits resulting from these precau- 

 tions have been felt in an astonishing degree. Besangon is 

 always crowded with prisoners of war and, wounded sol- 

 diers, among whom no contagion whatever has made its 

 appearance since the adoption of this salutary process. 



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