Reply to Dr. James Carmichael Smyth : containing remarks on his letter to Mr. Wilberforce, and a further account of the discovery of the power of mineral acids in a state of gas to destroy contagion / by John Johnstone, M.D.

  • John Johnstone
Date:
1805
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Credit: Reply to Dr. James Carmichael Smyth : containing remarks on his letter to Mr. Wilberforce, and a further account of the discovery of the power of mineral acids in a state of gas to destroy contagion / by John Johnstone, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    [ vli ] next aids ^fter mineral acid gafcs for prevent- ing its accumulation. By paffing a current of air continually through the fick room, the peftilential air may be fwept away. By re- moving the bed-clothes and the linen of the patient, the matter of contagion accumulated in them, may be removed too. But this can- not be done every moment; yet the matter of contagion is formed every moment. Here, then, is the eflential agency of mineral acid gafes. They do meet the matter of conta- gion every moment, and deftroy it, as foon ^s it is formed. I muft, however, referve the difcuffion of thefe collateral topics for another occafion. In importance, they yield to no iubjecSs of merely human enquiry, and demand therefore to be difcufled with candour and deUberation, without prejudice and without paffion. J. J. Birmingham, Sept. 24, 1805.