Volume 2

An account of the experiment made at the desire of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty on board the Union hospital ship, to determine the effect of the nitrous acid in destroying contagion, and the safety with which it may be employed. In a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Earl Spencer / [James Carmichael Smyth].

  • James Carmichael Smyth
Date:
1796
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Credit: An account of the experiment made at the desire of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty on board the Union hospital ship, to determine the effect of the nitrous acid in destroying contagion, and the safety with which it may be employed. In a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Earl Spencer / [James Carmichael Smyth]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ [ 29 ] N mended, to the Commanders, the neceflity ©f continuing the fumigation, not one at Sheernefs has made application to me for any materials for that purpofe. Extract of a Letter from Mr. Bajfan to Mr. Menzies. bheernefs, December 30, Tne Ruffian fhips which arrived this week from fea, are fickly. I received feve- ral with the petechial fever, as bad as any l have feen ; and am forry to fay that nurfe Muriay has had a flight attack, and one of tne marines is at prefent ill of the fame ever. He was taken ill on Tuefday morn* mg, the fymptoms are not fo violent as rormerly, and I fhall double my attention in profecuting the experiment which has already been of fo much ufe. '