Instructions and observatíons concerning the use of the chlorides of soda and lime. ... / Translated by Jacob Porter.

  • Antoine Germain Labarraque
Date:
1829
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    The patient experienced no painful sensation during the irrigation made with the chloride thus diluted in water. This case was communicated to the Royal Academy of Medicine at the sitting of August 11, 1825. It is believed that certain poisons may be destroyed by the contact of the same chloride; but the experiments have not yet been sufficiently numerous to affirm it with certainty. The linen and lint, that are used for dressing the fetid sores, preserve, for a long time, their odor, and contribute to the unhealthiness of the places where they are laid. This may be prevented by turning a cup of concentrated chloride upon five quarts of water, and soaking the cloths in this li¬ quid. They may be immediately taken out and laid by to dry, as they will have lost their odor. The di sinfection of the halls and markets, effected in Au¬ gust, 1824, by order of the authority, proves, together with the facts reported in this notice, for how many purposes, having for their object the destruction of the causes of fetidi- ty, the alkaline and earthy chlorides may be usefully employ¬ ed. These substances will finally become of habitual, and even domestic use, which would justify details, into which I have not thought proper to enter. The public health will lay us under obligation to moisten with the disinfecting chloride, a body, that begins to give ev¬ ident signs of decomposition before the time prescribed by custom or the laws permits it to be buried. In this case let a bottle of the concentrated chloride be put into twelve liters of water; a cloth dipt in this mixture should then be laid over the corpse, taking care to sprinkle it occasionally with the same liquor during the time that it is preserved. The necessity of this operation is daily felt at Paris, and far more so in hot climates. Gentlemen of the profession, called to inspect or embalm a body, may likewise preserve them¬ selves from every unwholesome exhalation by making use of the chloride in the manner, that has just been pointed out. Physicians called upon to certify the deaths of patients, and persons, that attend the sick, may secure themselves from the
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