SPOROKTON. 
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air and act as an energetic destroyer of noxious atmospheric 
impurities. 
“Liquid sporokton absorbs ammonia and sulphuretted 
hydrogen, destroys bad smells, and prevents the spread of 
infectious diseases; it is, consequently, a valuable agent for 
the deodorisation and disinfection of wards of hospitals, sick 
rooms, dairies, larders, ships, stables, cow-houses, kennels, 
piggeries, slaughter-houses, urinals, water-closets, privies, 
cesspools, sewers, drains, and other similar buildings and 
places. 
“ After it has parted with the whole of its sulphurous 
acid gas,liquid sporokton leaves an odourless non-volatile anti¬ 
septic and absorber of ammonia and sulphuretted hydrogen. 
“ Liquid sporokton evolves its sulphurous acid by simple 
exposure to air, without the aid of heat, so that no risk of 
fire attends its use, as is the case when rooms, buildings, 
holds of ships, &c., are fumigated with this gas by the old 
plan ; it will not stain or in any other way injure undyed 
woollen, linen, or cotton goods. It is consequently well 
adapted for the disinfection of underclothing, sheets, blankets, 
bed-furniture, &c. 
“ Liquid sporokton may be employed for the instantaneous 
preparation of a bath or lotion of sulphurous acid, to be 
used, under medical direction, in the treatment of itch, ring¬ 
worm, chronic eczema, lepra, psoriasis, impetigo, pityriasis, 
&c., in man, as well as mange, scab, and other skin affections, 
in the lower animals. 
“ Liquid sporokton is clean, it requires no skill in using 
it, and its action is perfectly controllable. 
“ Liquid No. 2 .—This preparation is specially made for the 
disinfection and purification of old beer barrels, wine casks, 
and the like. It is similar in composition to, and may be 
used for the same purpose as, No. 1; except, however, that 
as No. 2, unlike No. 1, is liable, from its containing iron 
instead of zinc, to stain linen, wood, &c., it should be em¬ 
ployed for disinfecting clothing or sprinkling over floors, 
decks of ships, and the like. 
“Solid .—This is a powder, usually a mixture of calcium 
sulphite and ferric chloride, which, by simple exposure to 
air, will slowly and steadily, or when sprinkled with water, 
rapidly give out 25 per cent, of its weight of sulphurous 
acid and leave no unpleasant smell behind it. Sulphurous 
acid gas, unlike non-volatile disinfectants, quickly mingles 
with the air, and seeks out, as it were, the noxious atmo¬ 
spheric impurities it is capable of destroying. 
“Solid sporokton,in addition to evolving sulphurous acid, 
