200 Influence of Chlorine. 
completely destroyed by sprinkling the chamber with one of 
iqui tes; very much diluted with pure water; it 
should be dashed about the beds ; and physicians and attend- 
ants should moisten their hands and their nostrils with the 
liqyid. 
These agents remove the odour of foul teeth and gums, 
and neutralize ‘the dangerous emanation from the ulcerated 
sore throat. A purulent and offensive discharge from the 
ladder was removed by injections of a very dilute chlerate: 
Bodies kept for interment until they are offensive, may be 
ren innoxious by these fluids, and professional men, call- 
ed to examinations connected with medical jurisprudence, 
with processes of embalming, or with demonstrations ii 
anatomy, should secure themselves by a free use of these 
powerful agents. 
They neutralize the foul air of marshes, of markets, and 
other places where animal matters occasion a putrid and de- 
leterious effluvium. 
‘The common sewer in Paris, called Amelot, being entire- 
ly obstructed, had been for 40 years a nuisance. Ln 178 
eight men were suffocated in an attempt to cleanse it, and in 
a recent effort several workmen had fallen down ia a state of 
asphyxia ; when the attempt was again made, and with en- 
tire success, and without accident. The safety of this painful 
and s operation appears to have been imputable en- 
tirely, to the use of the chlorate ofJime, with which the work- 
men wet their hands, arms, and nostrils, and_also all the pu- 
One of the workmen who had been thrown into a state of 
orn y , in the atte to ent th 5 * 
tion, and who ha d —— er the vault without precau 
lain forty-eight ituation 
entirely without sense ed ours in this situation, 
4. Asabarraque’s preparation is called in the French me- 
noir chlorure de owide de sodium et de chaux, and the method 
Smee castes given in Tome I. des Archives genérales de 
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