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of contagion to a certain extent around. Its value will be 

 appreciated by the faculty in examinations for inquests, dis- 

 sections and anatomical preparations. For all these desira- 

 ble purposes, it is only necessary to sprinkle the diluted liquid 

 in the apartment, or on the object requiring purification. 



The effluvia from drains, sewers, and other receptacles of 

 the same nature, will be destroyed by pouring into them a 

 quart of the mixture, added to a pailful of water, and re- 

 peating the operation until it is completely removed. 



Tainted meat, and animal food of every kind, may be ren- 

 dered sweet by sprinkling them with the mixture. Water 

 in cisterns may be purified, and all animalculce destroyed, by 

 putting into it a small quantity of the pure liquid, say about 

 half a pint to one hundred and twenty gallons of water, and 

 consequently it is highly valuable on board ships. 



The nuisances arising from disagreeable and unhealthy 

 manufactories, may be equally obviated by the mere sprinkling 

 of the chloride of lime, and the health of the workmen ve- 

 ry materially preserved in such deleterious processes as the 

 preparation of oil colors. It destroys the smell of paints so 

 effectually, that a room painted in the day may be slept in 

 at night, without any smell of paint being perceived, if it be 

 sprinkled some hours before with the mixture. 



Smelters of lead, glue and size makers, tallow and soap 

 manufacturers, skin dressers, &c. may deprive their premises 

 of all offensive smell, by the same processes. The close and 

 confined air of hospitals, prisons, ships, &c. will be almost 

 instantaneously purified by sprinkling the diluted chloride of 

 lime in small quantities from a watering pot. The stains from 

 fruit, &c. &c. may be removed from table linen, &c. by dip- 

 ping the article stained in water, applying the chloride of 

 lime until the stain is removed, and then rinsing well in cold 

 water previous to being washed. 



The chloride of soda has lately been most beneficially in- 

 troduced into the materia medica. The chlorides have the 

 instantaneous effect of arresting "animal and vegetable de- 

 composition, more especially, when generated in certain pu- 

 trid disorders. It appears evident, that chlorine acts chem- 

 ically upon the pernicious matter, and resolves it into innoc- 

 uous principles ; the application of the chloride of soda is 

 therefore limited only by animal and vegetable decay, and 

 the cause of its action in the following instances, extracted 

 from M. Labarraque, will be readily perceived, viz. carbun- 



