134 Action of Chloride of Lime on Alcohol. 
ed the smell disappeared, and it was eaten. Whence he infers that 
the odor from fish disinfected by chloride is not injurious to the health 
like that from putrid fish. 
The baskets and other utensils used by fishermen may be sein 
ed of the unpleasant odor which they contract, by the use of the 
chlorides. 
‘10. In the exhumation and removal of bodies which have been for 
some time buried. 
It is proposed that on occasions of this nature, when potnelacdia 
has doubtless occurred, after opening the grave, to water the exca- 
vation and ground adjacent with a strong solution of chloride, to lay 
a cloth wet with the solution over the coffin, to place the coffin in a 
box on the bottom of which is a layer six inches thick, of a mixture 
of fifteen parts of charcoal in coarse powder, and one part of dry 
chloride of lime, and to surround the sides and top with the same 
mixture. With such a precaution the exhumation and removal to a 
- great distance of a corpse long buried wer be safely effected sang: 
de Connaissances Usuelles, tome 12, p. 
auf 
sige oi cns al 
Arr. XXI.—Aetion of Chloride of Lime on Alcohol ; by M. Be! 
SouBEIRAN. 
Translated for this Journal, by Prof. Griscom. 
Tue interesting substance formed by the action of chloride of lime 
on alcohol, first manufactured, in considerable quantity, by Samuel 
Guthrie, at his laboratory on Lake Ontario, and made known to the 
chemists and physicians of this country through the medium of this 
Journal, possesses properties which will render the following investi- — 
gation acceptable to our readers. 
“When chlorine is passed through alcohol, the products are by- 
drochloric acid, a little carbonic acid, a small quantity of a material 
rich in carbon, and a peculiar ethereal fluid, constituted, agreeably fo 
the analysis of Despretz, of 1 atom of chlorine and 2 atoms of we 
carburetted hydrogen. 
In the supposition that the compounds called chlorures Powides 
are really combinations of chlorine with oxygenated bases, the same 
products ought to be obtained by bringing chem into contact with ak 
cohol, the acids -_ saturated as fast as shoo are formed. = 
