166 Miscellanies. 



death that occurred in the fleet, when there existed such fruitful 

 sources of fatal disorders. 



In these reports we find the experiments of Labarraque confirm- 

 ed. Putrid meat, immersed for two hours in a solution of one part 

 of the chloride of lime with forty parts of water, after being several 

 times washed in fresh water, lost its disagreeable odor, and became 

 as agreeable to the taste as if no putrefaction had ever taken place. 

 It is likewise added, that the chloride never incommoded in the least 

 the healthy or the sick. Two cases of pulmonary consumption were 

 particularly noticed, in which not the least irritation of the lungs 

 could be perceived. 



While inviting public attention to the signal virtues of the chlorine, 

 it should not be confounded with the disinfecting gases of Morveau 

 and Carmichael Smith, so much condemned in Trotter's Medicina 

 Nautica.* — B. 



6. Use of chloride of lime in bleaching the pulp of rags prepared 

 for making paper. — Having been consulted by a distinguished man- 

 ufacturer of paper in Massachusetts, as to a remedy for the injuiry 

 sustained by his people from the effluvia arising from the use of the 

 chloride of lime, we obtained from him the following statement of 

 facts. 



" In an engine room (so called) we have four engines that grind 

 the pulp of paper. These engines contain three bogheads of water, 

 in each of these we put one hundred and sixty pounds of rags, and 

 after washing them well in the engine, and reducing them to coarse 

 pulp, we put into each engine five pounds of the powders dissolved 

 in a pail of cold water and after grinding the powders to get them 

 to pieces, we strain this water into the engine and repeat the opera- 

 tion two or three times to get out all the strength of the powders into 

 the engine. After the powders have been in the engine about fifteen 

 minutes, we put half a pint of oil of vitriol into a pail of water, and 

 when well mixed turn it into the engine. This bleaches the rags in 

 about twenty minutes, we then hoist our washers and wash out the 

 bleaching powders and vitriol. You observe that in this operation we 

 use no hot water, nor is there any acid or other taste in the water, even 

 when we use a pint or a pint and a half of vitriol. " 



* The quantity ot" the chloride of lime proposed to be furnished to a ship of the 

 line, by the Spanish surgeons, in their report, is fifteen pounds a month, which in 

 this city would cost about two dollars. 



