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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    [ vi ] him juftice to fay that I could not have found a gentleman better qualified, in every refpect, for executing fo important a trull. I Ihall therefore, my Lord, without farther preface, lay before you, and the reft of theif Lordlhips, Mr. Menzies’s journal, as afford¬ ing a better defcription of the experiment, fo long as he continued to conduit it, than any I can offer» REPORT