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(9906 Mr. Capel Lofft on certain Erratg,—To Correfpondents. [ April T, 
the power of the acid fumes, he took the great coat, in which another phyfician, (Dr. Sarrais} 
had wrapped himfelf on his attack by the tever, and in which he had died. He fumigated it 
twice with burning fulphur, and then with nitrous acid fumes. He fpread it on his bed, and 
jay all night upon it. It pemainees in contaét with his fkiny till 8 o’clock, A.M. He wore it 
_all the morning, and then gave it to a beggar. No infeétion followed in either cafe. 
Nothing can be more obvious, than to infer that the fame acid fumes may deftroy the con- 
tagion of the influenza. At prefent, we have only analogy.in their behalf. For although F 
have fumigated every houfe where I have found the reigning complaint and have not feen 
any i infection afterw ards, I have not experience enough to decide the queftion. 
The trial is pee free from inconvenience and difficulty. It is only neceflary to put 
an ounce or tivo of oil of vitriol in a tea-cup or a fancer, and add a tea- -fpoonful of falt- -petre 
from time to time. White fumes will a ife, and thefe fhould be jut fenfible to the fieht and 
fmell, in which ftate almoft every body finds them agreeable. No heat or apparatus is re- 
quired. A tea-cup, fo charged, may-ftand in each paffage, and in the apartment of the un- 
infected. I fufpected at firft that the fumes might increafe the cough proper to the com- 
plaint. But I have not yet obferved this. However, thould there be < any fufpicion in indi- 
vidual cales, the fumes n¥ed not be extricated where the fick are. I have been particularly 
interefted in Te: fome confumptive patients from the influenza; and they have not 
found the fumes offenfive, when only juft perceptible. 
The danger of the hot regimen fhould be pointed out to thofe who may be inclined to treat 
theinteives. Heated apartments, warm, and elpecially {pirituous, liguids, a load of bed- 
clothes, and clole apartments, will often convert a flight into a dangerous, a dangerous into a 
fatal, attack. Children and weakly young people will be debilitated into king’s-evil or con- 
fumption. Cold air, cool liquids, and the cool regimen, in general, fhould be perfevermgly 
adhered to when the cough is tight, the {kin hot, and generally during the firft days. I add 
thefe remarks only for the fake of preferving thofe who a¢t for themfelves from error. ~ 
I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, 
March 17, 1803. Tromas Beppors. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
MUST requet the correétion of the underwritten Errata; owing, I am forry to acl, to 
the indiftinétnets of my hand. 
SIR, 
In the Effay on Idealifm, 
Page 121, line 28, fead “on matter ?—p. 122, 1.11, col.2, read “impelling force ;’"— 
p- 123, 1. 16, for <<‘ cherifbes, read. thinks ;”—p. 143, col..2, 1.1, for “competent, read apt ae 
—p- 123, col. 2, 1.55, tor “confiantly, read certainly 3” —p. 124, 1. et for “< foring, read Being ;’ 
—p. 125, 1.46, " read “And if it had been feen;’—p.125, cok 2, and in col. 1, for fabs 
frances, read fubftance;’—p. 126, 1.3 from the hottom, read “ peat. ATION.’ 
In Punctuation. Page 122, after “Exisrence,”-a; col2, 1.5, after “each other,” a: 
—p.124, after “energy,” a, —alter “caufe,” ditto. Tam, your’s fineerely, 
Trafion, March 13, 1803. CapEL Loprr. 
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