Use of Chlorides and Chlorine. 
These places being then sprinkled with chloride of lime, the healthy 
fowls remained healthy, and the others were successively enmves to 
health. ; 
- The same remedy was applied by M. Capliu, at Seiiiaed. The 
healthy fowls were preserved from the epidemic, and the sented 
soon restored. 
The solution employed on these occasions was prepared by add- 
ing two ounces of chloride of lime to half a gallon of water, care- 
fully mixing, filtering the solution, preserving it in well closed bottles, 
and using it as occasion required. ‘The cause of this Epizootic 
was not ascertained, but it was perceived that the fowls which were 
d in roosts exposed to the north were not attacked by it. 
In a letter from M. Recluz, pharmacien at Vaugirard, it is stated 
that during an epidemic among the fowls at that place, it was found 
that those feeders who were careful to keep their fowl-yards clean, 
and who put clean straw in their roosts and stables, preserved their 
stock from the attack, whence it was inferred that the disease arose 
from the effluvia of putrefaction from the dung which was. d 
to accumulate on the floors. In one instance fifteen fowls out of 
twenty three had died of the infection and three more were sick. The 
yard or roost was then well cleaned, washed with common water, and 
then sprinkled twiée a day with a solution of one ounce of chloride 
in a pint of water. From that time not a fowl died. Similar results 
were obtained by other persons, one of whom stated that when he — 
commenced the use of the chlorides, all his fowls were sick, and 
from the time of the first sprinkling with it they all recovered. M. 
Recluz regrets very much that he had not had recourse to the same 
remedy in a disease among cows at Vaugirard. A single dairy man 
lost nine of his cows in two months, without perceiving whence the 
sickness proceeded. 
The chloride has also been successively used in disinfecting she 
pens or casks in which rabbits are kept. The solution is applied 
with a brush, and the casks are drained before the rabbits are re- 
turned. Some which were very sick and _— to eat, were re- 
= promptly by this disinfection. 
9. In the treatment of tainted fish. 
When tainted fish are treated with chlorine, they are said to exhale 
an odor of bromine ; but the author states than on applying chloride 
of lime to a spoiled turbot, the odor was different both from that of 
chlorine and of bromine. ‘The fish was washed, and on being cook- 
