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 K i iv ] the Admiralty, is extremely flattering to me, as an individual, and claims my' warmed: gratitude ; but it is of much more • importance, my Lord, as holding out to the nation, a well grounded confidence, that no objedl which may be conducive to r- ►**' • -- /* the public fervice, or to the prefervation of thofe brave men, the pride and protestors * s >■ + * of their country, can long efcape your Lordfhip’s notice. I have now the honor i r to lay before you, and the reft of the Lords Commifli,oners of^ the Admiralty, an account of the Experiment made pn board the Union, at your Lordfhip's defire, and likewife of thofe trials that were made at the defire of the Ruffian Admiral, and with youj: Lordfhip’s approbation, on board, feme iliips of his fquadron. I confider myfeby in executing this talk, as only per- - N v H forming \