The utility and application of heat as a disinfectant / by Elisha Harris.

  • Harris, Elisha, 1824-1884
Date:
1860
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Credit: The utility and application of heat as a disinfectant / by Elisha Harris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    here be remarked, that the same disinfecting chamber required for the process of disinfection by steam heat, would, with the simple addition of refrigerating tubes and plates, be perfectly adapted to the require- ments of refrigeration. The conditions required for either process have already been fully demonstrated in various experiments for other objects. The limits we had assigned to this paper will not admit of any further statements or illustrations. The writer's main design will have been accomplished if his suggestions are made to promote practical improvements in our means for controlling the fomites of infec- tious maladies. The aim has been, in all the foregoing suggestions, to propose practicable measures for insuring an absolute destruction of the pestilent property of all localized infection, without loss or damage to the materials or the apartments that retain the virus of disease, and also to propose a rational method for effectually disinfecting ships and all domiciliary foci of pestilent fevers. No person can be more conscious than the author, that this paper but imperfectly answers the purpose for which it was designed. It bears its own impress of an effort to subsidize various elements of knowledge to purposes of public utility, — even before some of those elements have passed the crucible of rigid experiment and received the seal of scientific demonstration. Such as it is, the paper is sub- mitted as a voluntary contribution to the good works undertaken by the National Sanitary and Quarantine Convention. ELISHA HARRIS. 253 Fourth Avenue, New York, June 12, 1860.
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