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Perhaps sir, if you could find a place in your Journal for the 
above article on iodine, it might be the none of some lives, 
or at.any rate, it would give a new peg to hang a hope upon, 
and thus tend to relieve the patient from that constant dread 
of impending death, which places him in a situation like that 
of the person at the feast of the tyrant of Syracuse, who 
found himself sitting under a sword suspended by a hair. 
8. Notice of the manufacture of the chloride of lime, and 
of some of its leading uses, in a letter from Mr. G. W. Car- 
penter to.the Editor, dated Philadelphia, Jan. 1829.—The 
chioride of lime is manufactured on a very large scale, at the 
Maryland chemical works at Baltimore. A large chamber 
lined with lead is made use of, and about 5000 Ib. of hydrate 
of lime is placed thinly on moveable shelves, the chlorine 
gas is then introduced into the chamber and is absorbed by 
the lime, the top shelves are saturated first, the lime is then 
stirred and the shelves reversed, the top placed at the bot- 
tom and the bottom at the top, and so on through the whole, 
introducmg additional quantities of chlorine as the shelves 
are transposed and the gas absorbed or united. The chlo- 
ride thus made is considered fully equal to the best bleaching 
salt — can be imported. 
It is onerally:< rk tains in solution bo paws is made int the 
proportion of four ounces to one pint of water, and as only 
about one half of the lime is dissolved, it will es necessary to fil- 
ter, in order to obtain the clear solution. Dilute one part of 
the liquid with 40 parts of water, a pint with five gallons, ora 
a wine glass full to three quarts of water, stir the mixture 
and it is then fit for use. It is the most powerful, disinfecting 
agent hitherto discovered, and an instantaneous destro: 
every bad smell. It is an infallible destroyer of all efiluvia, 
arising tas animal, and vegetable decomposition, and effect- 
ually prevents their deleterious influence, hence, it is particu- 
arly recommended to the attention of ‘those residing in ep- 
idemic districts, as there is reason to expect, that the mix- 
ture sprinkled shee apanigse s would prevent the access 
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