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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    # t v ] forming a duty I owe to your Loramip* and which I do with the greater pleafure, as it may poffibly be the means of making public a difcovery which fhould be univer- fally known; and as the only way in my * , * r : x r ’ ? ' power to bring forward the merit of thofe • * T Gentlemen, to whofe affiftance I have been particularly indebted for the fortunate iflue of this experiment, and from whofe re- ports I am enabled to prefent your Lord- fhip with an account of the manner iri which it was conduced, and of the parti- cular effe&s it produced. Mr. Menzies, late Surgeon to his Ma- jefty’s (loop the Difcovery, was the perfon who, at my requefl, very obligingly under- took the management of the experiment on board the Union, and it is but doing A 3 him