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VOL. XII. 



BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1833. 



NO. 5. 



COMMUNICATIONS. 



For the Neio England Farmer. 

 CHLORIDE OP LIME AND PULMONARY 

 COMPLAINTS. 



The following communication and certificate 

 annexed, afford a fair promise of a specific against 

 one of the most formidable and obstinate of all the 

 diseases to which mankind are liable. 

 To the Editor of the New England Farmer, 



Sir, 1 hope you will not think me guilty of 

 flattery when I speak of the value to myself and 

 the public of your interesting journal. You pub- 

 lish experiments upon the human system of gen- 

 tlemen of high respectability, as well as essays, 

 &c, on Agriculture. On reading the experiments 

 so very interesting in pulmonary complaints by 

 Dr. Cotteren (N. E. Farmer, Vol. XI, No. 19, page 

 147,) in Paris, France, on patients afHicted with 

 consumption, I ventured to try the experiment of 

 inhaling the gaseous perfume of chlorate of lime 

 on a young mau, a nephew to my wife, whose 

 certificate accompanies this communication, and 

 which I took myself; after his health had so im- 

 proved as to visit me, (a ride of 5 miles.) He is 

 about 25 years of age, of steady habits, and indus- 

 trious. I visited him after he had been sick five 

 or six weeks, and thought him not so sick us I ex- 

 pected to find him, although much reduced. I 

 returned home in hopes I should hear he was 

 better, but every day brought tidings of his grow- 

 ing worse. A second physician was called, a gen- 

 tleman of eminence in his profession : I saw him, 

 who informed me he feared his case was doubtful. 

 Some of my family visited him, the answer was 

 he grew worse, was wasting very fast, and accord- 

 ing to human view was rapidly approaching the 

 close of life. All this time the article above al- 

 luded to never entered my mind, till the young 

 man was in the last stages of a consumption. One 

 Sabbath evening, after retiring, not having much 

 inclination to sleep, I was thinking of this distress- 

 ed family, Dr. Cotteren's experiment darted into 

 my mind. The next morning I spoke of it in my 

 family — my oldest son (who had witnessed the sur- 

 prising effect which chloride of lime had upon the 

 corpse of a young man who had been dead four 

 days and brought almost sixty miles in a wagon 

 over a rough road in a new country, one year ago 

 in June last) was very urgent for the application 

 to his cousin. It was procured by sending four 

 miles ; my son went with it, and administered it 

 watching through the night. Neither of us pos- 

 sessing afiy medical knowledge, I advised him tD 

 use it with caution, and at first there was no ap- 

 paratus used. Some was prepared by putting a 

 quarter of a pound into a junk bottle, filling the 

 bottle with soft water, shaking it a little, letting it 

 stand till settled, pouring it into a saucer, and lo 

 a gill adding half as much vinegar, when it is then 

 fit for use. The saucer was placed near the be! ; 

 finding no unpleasant sensations it was put near to 

 his mouth and nose, advising the sick man to shut 

 his mouth and inhale the fumes through the proper 

 orifice to the lungs. A free use was made of it 

 all the night ; the liquid in a vessel was rather in- 

 convenient, a rag was wet, he said he received it 



son left him in the morning more comfortable than 

 he had been for several days. The use of it was 

 continued, and the sick man's health improved to 

 the astonishment of all who saw him. The above 

 together with the certificate, are the facts as they 

 took place ; ami the young man's health has im- 

 proved so much in the short space of time that he 

 is able to transact business, and do some labor 

 every day at the date of this communication. 



I hope that a further trial will be made by those 

 afflicted with disordered lungs and the result pub- 

 lished, as the ingredient is so cheap, and the ap- 

 plication so simple and easy, and it is obtainable 

 by every person in every situation of life. I hope 

 that this case may be published in every journal, 

 as there was no other medicine used and the effect 

 was so salutary. 



Yours, respectfully, James Walker. 

 Fryeburg, Me., Aug. 3, 1833. 



CERTIFICATE OF CALEB WARREN, JR. 



I hereby certify that I was taken sick the sixth 

 day of April, 1833, with an inflammatory fever, as 

 my physicians called it. My complaint was a pain 

 in the left side, in the greatest extreme, which 

 caused an inflammation on my lungs, which of 

 course ulcerated, attended with a distressing cough, 

 which brought up the matter that had suppurated 

 upon my lungs in such quantities that I was al- 

 most strangled by the discharge. I was sick nearly 

 iliree months; was so much reduced that I could 

 not sit in a chair without being supported by one 

 person, while another made my bed. I called a 

 second physician, who met my former doctor : 

 they examined my case, and considered it doubt- 

 ful. I followed the direction of both the gentle- 

 men, but my lungs were so diseased that I grew 

 worse every day. My case was now considered 

 hopeless. My doctor told me he could do no 

 more for me. At this stage of my disorder I was 

 advised by my uncle Walker to inhale the fume of 

 chloride of lime, which I did, and received imme- 

 diate relief. About the 25th of June, when I was 

 at the lowest, some days I brought up more than 

 two quarts of matter from my lungs in the course 

 of 24 hours ; but after inhaling the fume of the 

 lime a short space my cough abated, and I ceased 

 to bring up the matter from my lungs as I had 

 done before. I never brought up any but once 

 after inhaling the lime ; my health improved much 

 faster than I could expect. In six days I could 

 walk about the room ; the ninth I walked out of 

 doors ; the twelfth I rode a mile on horseback, 

 and now my health is fast improving. I made 

 use of no other kind of medicine whatever. 



Caleb Warren, Jr. 

 Denmark, Me. July 13th, 1833. 



Boston, August 2, 1832. 

 To the Mayor of the city of Boston : 



Sir: The undersigned committee of physicansof 

 the city of Boston being convened in consequence 

 of a communication received from you, ask leave 

 through the medium of the city government, to 

 warn their fellow-citizens of the danger of eatine 



number of individuals. The common causes of 

 these diseases are eating too freely, eating improper 

 substances and unusual exposure to cold and moist- 

 ure. We respectfully invite you to suggest to our 

 fellow-citizens the practice of a reasonable caution 

 in regard to these causes of disease. To avoid 

 misconceptions on a subject so important to health, 

 we wish to have it understood as our opin- 

 ion, that ripe fruits and wholesome vegetables used 

 with moderation, constitute a most salutary kind of 

 food at this period of the year. 



John C. Warren, John Randall, 

 Benj. Shdrtleff, Geo. C. Shattock. 

 George Hayward, 



unripe fruit and uncooked vegetables. The present 



is the season at which Cholera Morbus and other 



stronger from the rag than any other way. My ] affections of the bowels prove mortal to a great 



From Goodsell's Genesee Farmer. 

 BEES. 



If you should consider the following plain com- 

 munication of facts worthy of a place in your pa- 

 per, you are at liberty to insert it, hoping that it 

 may prompt some other person to convert a use- 

 less garret into a source of amusement and profit. 

 Much has been written of late respecting Bees. 

 Two years since I learned that bees might be kept 

 to advantage in a garret. At that time I was build- 

 ing a stone house two stories high, and directed 

 the mason to leave a hole in the end eight inches 

 wide and one and a half high ; the bottom level 

 with the garret floor, having determined to give 

 this method a fair trial. I delayed putting in the 

 bees .imti' had a swarm last year. The swarm 

 was first put into a hive twenty inches deep and 

 ten in diameter. I placed this hive on the floor 

 six inches from the wall, and about the same dis- 

 tance from the chimney opposite the hole left in 

 the wall. They nearly filled the hive last year, 

 and this season they have not only completed the 

 filling of the hive but have filled the space between 

 the hive and the wall, and also between the chim- 

 ney and hive, and are now building on the outside 

 of the hive opposite the chimney, and have raised 

 the comb several inches above the hive. Although 

 the bees have increased in numbers to that extent 

 that they cover the wall for two feet above the 

 hive yet they continue to work well, and there is 

 no appearance of their being disposed to swarm. 

 I have one inconvenience with them, if a door or 

 window is open at the end of the house they some 

 times enter by mistake where they often remain as 

 Ulmus says " bunting their heads against the win- 

 dows " until they fall down and die if they are not 

 turned out of doors. I have given the bees the 

 whole of the garret which is twenty-two by thirty 

 six feet, no light is admitted except by the hole 

 where they enter, which hole I fear may prove too 

 small for them hereafter, should they continue to 

 increase, as it now appears to be filled with bees 

 passing in and out, but none are seen lying about 

 the outlet as is the case when the common hive is 

 used. 



LAWSON HARMON, Jr. 



Wheatland, July 29th, 1833. 



Note. — We are under obligations to Mr. Har- 

 mon for his communication on bees; for it is by 

 such communications of facts, derived from the 

 best possible authority, that we shall attempt to 

 persuade our farmers to vary in some instances 



