368 Miscellanies. 



the body, and sprinkled occasionally with the liquid. In this way, a 

 corpse may be preserved indefinitely by a process, which will be 

 made known elsewhere. 



By sprinklings of water containing a fortieth of the chloride, one 

 may disinfect, in a moment, the filthiest kennels, sewers and drains, 

 vaults, slaughter houses, markets for meat and for fish, manufacto- 

 ries for glue and for cat-gut, and, generally, all places, that are infect- 

 ed with animal exhalations. 



Butchers' stalls should be sprinkled, in the hot season, with the 

 cblorated water, and, by this means, the meat will be preserved for a 

 long time unaltered. 



In butteries, especially in the country, where it is often necessary 

 to lay in provisions for a week, the meat may be preserved, if care 

 is taken to set on the floor a vessel containing some of the cblorated 

 water, which it will be necessary to renew daily. If the meat has 

 become fetid, a simple immersion in water containing a fortieth of 

 the chloride, will neutralize the smell, and, after being washed in 

 pure water, it may be cooked and eaten without injury to the health. 



Notes. 



1 . Persons affected with the nervous asthma breathe more freely 

 in apartments that contain the cblorated water ; and it has been ob- 

 served that attacks of this disease are less frequent with such as take 

 care to keep in their sleeping rooms, during the night, vessels of the 

 chloride diluted in eight parts of water. 



2. The Council of Health of the lazaretto of Marseilles resolved, 

 in December, 1825, that the chlorides should be substituted for fu- 

 migations in the lazarettos, for purifying passengers and their bag- 

 gage, also patients attacked with the plague, and other suspected 

 persons, as well as for the daily cleansing of ships at quarantine. 

 In May and August, 1826, the quarantine physician and health offi- 

 cers, who attended the patients attacked with the sea typhus, were 

 preserved from the disease, simply by the use of the chlorides ; 

 while, in 1818, in the same place and under the same circumstan- 

 ces, the typhus was communicated to the health officers and quaran- 

 tine physician, notwithstanding the daily use of the Guiton fumiga- 

 tions. 



3. Official reports, sent to the French government by the consul 

 general of the king at Aleppo, who was provided with some bottles 

 ol the chlorides, certify, that by the use of them, a great number of 

 persons were preserved from the plague during that dreadful epi- 

 demic, which cost Aleppo no less than twenty-five thousand lives in 



