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These places being then sprinkled with chloride of lime, the healthy 

 fowls remained healthy, and the others were successively restored to 

 health. 



The same remedy was applied by M. Capliu, at Vaugirard. The 

 healthy fowls were preserved from the epidemic, and the sick were 

 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 

 confined 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 efHuvia of putrefaction from the dung which was sufi^ered 

 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 rot)st was then well cleaned, washed with common water, and 

 then sprinkled twice 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 

 Gommenced 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 the 

 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 refused to eat, were re- 

 stored 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- 



