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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    I ✓ / / ' - I ' ' lv [ 38 ] fo happened, that, on the day following, he was ordered, with part of his fquadron, to the North Seas, and in this ftate of hurry, not having time to confider which was the mo ft fickly veffel, he left orders for the trial to be made on board the Revel frigate; but on examining the hofpitai books on board the Union, the Pamet Eu- ftaphia, of 74 guns, appeared to claim our firft attention, from her fickly ftate : I therefore waited on Admiral Buckner, to acquaint him with this circumftance, and he very readily applied to Capt. Chechagoff, on whom the command of the remaining part of the Ruflian fquadron had devolved, and obtained his leave for the trial to be made on board of her, in preference to the other. After this, fome unavoidable de¬ lay was occafioned, in waiting for the ma¬ terials, and colledling together the utenfils neceffary for the operation. In the forenoon of the feventh of De¬ cember, 1795, I went on board the Pamet Euftaphia,