300 CARBOLIC ACID VAPOURKER. 



persons soon become accustomed to it, or do not 

 dislike it even when they smell it for the first time. 



The vapour of carbolic acid will diffuse itself 

 through the air of the sick room or through the house 

 very quickly if the acid be subjected to a moderate 

 heat. A teaspoonful may be poured into a common 

 garden saucer which has been previously warmed, 

 and placed in the sick room. The operation may be 

 repeated once in four or six hours. 



Different forms of apparatus for effecting more con- 

 veniently the volatilization of carbolic acid have been 

 suggested. Among these the most simple and effica- 

 cious is the self-acting vapouriser of Messrs. Savory 

 and Moore, 164, New Bond-street. A metallic plate 

 is kept warm by a small night light or small-wicked 

 spirit lamp. By the aid of an ingeniously constructed 

 syphon, carbolic acid is made to fall on the surface of 

 the heated plate, drop by drop. It is instantly vola- 

 tilized, and is soon diffused through the atmosphere. 

 This instrument may be obtained ready for use at 

 a moment's notice, and is, I believe, really efficient. 



On destroying contagious Germinal Matter, after it 

 has entered the Body. Unfortunately, we are not yet 

 acquainted with any means by which the contagious 

 germs, which may be circulating in the blood, can be 

 certainly destroyed, and the injury which necessarily 

 results from their growth and accumulation in various 

 parts of the system, prevented. But yet the facts of 

 the case justify the hope that so desirable an end may 



