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 .. : in a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Earl Spencer.

  • 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 .. : in a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Earl Spencer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    [ 2° ] ried on regularly twice a day, and with the fame evident advantages, in purifying the air of the hofpital, and leffening the ma- lignity of the diforder, fo that every nurfe and attendant on the fick, went now cheer- fully and confidently about 'their duty; without the leaf! dread or apprehenfion of the contagion, by which means the fick were better taken care of, and the general ftate of the hofpital was in a much more prof- perous way. It was therefore, from this time, deemed fufficient to fumigate only once a day. December 23, 1795. On vifiting the Union again on the twenty-third of December, I found the carpenters employed, from the dock yard, in making the alterations which I formerly propofed in a letter to Dr. Carmichael Smyth, refpe&ing the neceJJ'aries, and which I was happy to find, the Lords of the Admi- ralty had ordered to be done upon his ap- plication. My