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of contagion to a certain extent around. Its value will be 
appreciated by the faculty in examinations for inquests, dis- 
sections and anatomical preparations. For all these desira- 
ble purposes, it is only necessary to sprinkle the diluted liquid 
in the apartment, or on the object requiring purification 
The effluvia from drains, sewers, and other receptacles of 
the same nature, will be destroyed by pouring into them a 
quart of the mixture, added to a pailful of water, and re- 
peating the operation until it is completely removed. 
Tainted meat, and animal food ss — kind, eed be — 
dered sweet by sprinkling them w mi Wat 
in cisterns may be purified, and all secudicale chidiensjath ree 
putting into it a small quantity of the pure liquid, say about 
half a pint to one hundred and twenty gallons of water, and 
—ee it is highly valuable on board ships. 
isances arising from disagreeable and unhealthy 
a dataiiaal may be equally obviated by the mere sprinkling 
of the chloride of dae: and the health of the workmen ve- 
ry materially rved in such deleterious processes as the 
preparation of an colors. It destroys the smell of paints so 
effectually, that a room painted in the day may be slept in 
at night, without any smell of paint being perceived, if it be 
sprinkle ed some hours before with the mixture. 
Smelters of lead, glue and size makers, tallow and soa 
manufacturers, skin dressers, &c. may deprive their premises 
of all offensive smell, by the same —— The close and 
confined air of hospitals, prisons, ships, &c. will be almost 
instantaneously purified by sprinkling tthe diluted chloride of 
lime in small quantities from a watering pot. The stains from 
fruit, doc. &&c. may be removed from table linen, we. by di 
the article stained in water, applying the chloride of 
ime until the stain is removed, and then rinsing well in cold 
water —— to being w ars 
oride of soda has lately been most beneficially in- 
cokuoal into the materia medica. The chlorides have the 
heatartie te effect of arresting animal and vegetable de- 
mposition, more especially, when generated in certain pu- 
trid disorders. It appears evident, that chlorine acts chem- 
ically upon the pernicious matter, and resolves it into innoc- 
uous principles ; the application of the chloride of soda is 
re limited only by animal and vegetable decay, and 
the cause of its action in the following instances, extracted 
from M. Labarraque, will be peauily perceived, viz. carbun- 
