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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    / > [ 4* ] I returned to Chatham again on the fourteenth, with orders to fumigate as many of the Ruffian veflels, efpecially fuch as were molt fickly, as I poffibly could j for though the experiment could not be re¬ gularly carried on, yet in this manner it might leffen the virulence of the diforder, and diminifh the number of fick fent to the hofpital. Next day I waited on Capt. Chechagoff and Capt. Sinavin, and found that their veffels were not yet cleared of their ftores, &c. fo that I could not go on with either. Indeed, the Ratvezan was pretty healthy, . her Commander, Capt. Chechagoff, being very attentive to every means of purifying his veffel by ventilation and cleanlinefs, and by deftroying and fuppreffing the Jhubs, as far as he poffibly could ; for he told me, he could not do them away altogether, without giving the men other cloathing in lieu, which muff be done by an order from the Commander in Chief. Captain I - N ' /