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of M. Leblanc, and tliis is wliat M. Depaul has recently done, 
whose mind being unprejudiced and correct, he is therefore 
difficult to persuade.* 
(To he continued) 
Eeview. 
Quid sit pulchrnm, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non.—H or. 
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Air and Wafer, their Impurities and Purification. By Henry 
Bollmann Condy. London ; John W. Davies, 54, Princes 
Street, Leicester Square ; 18G2. 
The difference in action of oxygen in its ordinary and 
ozonic state is well known to those who have given the 
subject any consideration. Not only are the effects inten¬ 
sified, but the body seems to have acquired new properties; 
indeed, so much so that Schonbein tliought he had dis¬ 
covered a new elementary principle. Faraday, however, 
showed that it was only another form in which the same 
substance was capable of existing, termed by him allotropie. 
It is when in its nascent, or newly born, or set-free state, 
that oxygen manifests these peculiar effects. Among them 
is the rapid oxidation of organic substances on coming in 
contact with them. It is on this principle that Condy^s 
Disinfecting Fluid acts. It destroys the odour of putrefying 
matter effectually by oxidizing the disengaged sulphuretted 
and phosphoretted hydrogen and other organic bodies. 
According to Mr. Condy, the most readily available form 
ill which oxygen can be thus employed is that of perman¬ 
ganate of soda and potash, designated by him the alkaline 
permanganates But in certain special cases where the 
presence of alkaline matter might be objectionable, per¬ 
manganate of lime may, with much advantage, be emploj^ed 
instead of the true alkaline permanganates. When this is 
All the animals from which MM. Depaul and Bausquet have taken 
the fluid, and with which they have inoculated, were affected by grease 
(eaux aux jambes), and these cannot be eonfuunded with the malady of the 
horses of liieumes, to which the name cf grease ought never to have been 
applied, and thus tlie much to be regretted confusion avoided, I pro¬ 
cured all the animals for the experiments of MM. Bausquet and Depaul. 
—U. L. 
