-FUMIGATION. 
fumes will continue to arife for feveral hours. The oil of 
ea seh be taken by meafure, not by weight.” (Sec 
Reports of the Fever Inftitution.) On beard the: Union, 
hofpital: fhip, the mixed ingredients in the c cup were carried 
nd. M. 
both the experiments of Morveau, however, and of Mr.C 
fhank, of Woolwich; have fhewn the fafety and praCticability 
of uling this.acid gas in he arae hee pie are 
the quantities and. proportions o ry ingre 
dients, which M. pronicad ernployed ina ward, cians 
ten be a 
O27, Gros. 
s Common falt 2 or 10 decagrams, 
Black oxide — mangancle re) 5 17 — 
Water 235 — 4 
Sulphuric aci ad -7 50 6 .« 
he oxide is firlt reduced to pone. and then mixed with 
the falt by trituration ; this mixture is then put into a gla{s 
he water added ; 7 ad _ Lagat 
once, if the fum $ made 
artments ; butin fu ee fons if the 
rooms areiahebied. The following proportions were em- 
ployed by Mr. Cruikfhank. 
«  Muriate of foda - 2 parts 
cna of ee - ro 
Siipiares acid of 36 deorees a ico Rollo on Diabetes. ) 
. Mo sali who is fatisfied that oxygenated muriatic 
acid gas is the moft efficacious prefervative ane infection, 
‘6 rion san par excellence,’’ fuggeits a mode of ob- 
taining this gas extemporaneoufly ; viz. by pouring upon a 
of ‘the oxide of iy Seater in a four ounce bottle, 
vapour of 
the e€ oxy-muriatic acid is ‘enmediately Taner in contider- 
able intenfity. 
- Although thefe mineral acid vapours are obvioufly pof- 
‘fefled of the power of deftroying putrid effluvia, and the 
oe from Pe a fevers, chapel 
foul ulcers, &C.5 the their power upon the con- 
‘tagious matter of calles anes sa meafle 
ot ae euiedont afcertained, a only a tags ak 
tive to this | of the fubje, 
Is soihe following pares a Dr. Smyth. After ae that 
nary cafes, and i in private practice, he found that one, 
S, KC. 
no on 
have equally ficeeeied, oa 
o be known, in ae the {car- 
latina anginofa, or putrid fore throat, from being commu- 
‘nicated to the reft of the family, living ae the fame roof. 
= this will apply to the {mall pox, I cannot fay from 
cwn experience ; but Dr. Rollo, 
fae 01 to ‘the areal 
‘royal of chemiftry t 
edeftroys the miafma of fma 
ties of ee taken for he pees of inoculation, one 
was expoied tothe nitrous vapour, the other not: the per- 
fous inoc fied with the firft were not feized with the difeafe, 
oy 
a) 
“Ee < 
or 
8 
whilft the inoculation took the ufual effedt, when perfonmed 
with the fecond.”’ (See Dr. Smyth's treatife “ On the Ef 
feét of the Nitrous Vapour,’’ &c. p. 221 
Fumication, Powder of, was iced at Mofcow, in 
1771, for preventing the infeGtion of the plague. It is 
prepared of different degrees of ftrength in the following 
manner: 1. Take leaves of j aaa a juniper-berries pounded, 
ears of wheat, guaiacum ood pou ca pee ae ieee 
be had, the cones of pines’ or firs, ach fix pounds ; 
common falt-petre ek eh eight pee : yas eee 
fix pounds ; Smyrna tar orn myrrh, or, inftead of this, the 
common tar of pines and firs, two pounds; mix all thefe 
ingredients together, and they will produce a pood of the 
nay of the firft Se le 2s Take eunvosd or 
pounds ; * fulphur pounded ts 
tar or myrrh, one pound anda half; mix thefe Hark and 
they will yield half a = of the powder of the fecond 
ftrength. The efficac the powder of fumigation was 
tried on ten malefators ner fentence of death, who were 
confined three weeks in a lazarette, and expofed i in every 
pofible o the infe€tion of the plague, and none of 
them were at en es ed by it 
alfo ufe a for the a& of making a fuf- 
pended cay receive the fumes of or fteams of one or more 
other bodies, in order to calcine, to correé&t it, or impawt to it 
fome new quality 
Cerufs is rae ‘by the fumigation, or vapour, of vinegar, 
_ gnawing and corroding plates of lead. 
UMIG sat ag ta is a ‘practic e, in Surgery, of applying re- 
medies, in th of fmoke, iy the Ae of the body, 
or to that ae tumours, e of the mott 
ancient cia of affeéting the 
m ae is of opinion, that if the peculiar advan- 
ta 1 fumigations were generally known to 
preciones, they would he much more frequently employed. 
The advan of a method confift in its affe€ting the 
conftitution, pine er means have failed, and in producing 
its effects in a een fhor any other, mode re- 
uft 
ing great ravages 
in the palate, throat, &c. it is needlefs to O intilt upon ae 
of ee fmigation free from the inconveniences of 
ormer ones, and which, in the {pace of thirt y-five years, he 
had fuccefsfully em em pig in more than four ‘yand red cafes, 
that had refitted all the ordinary methods of cure. ih met! had 
“CO 
ind of calomel, 
a ahich, by repeated fublimation trom iron filings, was fo far 
deprived of its muriatic acid, as to be in part reduced into 
running quickfilver ; and while it poffeffed confiderable vo- 
latility, was perfe ”, hepaiee ome of this powder, 
being itrewed upon the hot iron low, was imme- 
placed be 
diately converted: into eae ick furrounded the patient’s 
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