On the application of sulphurous acid gas to the prevention, limitation, and cure of contagious diseases /cby James Dewar, M.D., Kircaldy.

  • Dewar, James, Sir, 1842-1923
Date:
1866
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Credit: On the application of sulphurous acid gas to the prevention, limitation, and cure of contagious diseases /cby James Dewar, M.D., Kircaldy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    velopment of more serious mischief; and as the air, mixed with this gas, must of necessity be purified from every noxious element, we are encouraged to the adoption of the process by the well-founded prospect of deriving from it speedy and varied ad- vantage. So much for the applicability of this process to the persons of living animals; but it is capable of extensive utilisation in the direction of disinfecting inanimate objects/' In this instance we may at once, and without scruple, proceed to intensify the sulphurous vapour by whatever means we can conveniently command. Steam can anywhere be improvised with- out much difficulty; and this of itself is an important adjunct, of the sufficiency of which as a disinfectant, in combination with the fumes, one experiment will suffice to convince the most incredulous. The simple addition of a little nitre, however,
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