Remarks on the report of M. Chaptal, (late minister of the interiour) to the consuls or former government of France, with an examination of the claim of M. Guiton de Morveau to the discovery of the power of the mineral acid gazes, on contagion : in a letter addressed to William Wilberforce, Esq. M.P. / by James Carmichael Smyth.

  • Smyth, James Carmichael, 1741-1821.
Date:
1805
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Credit: Remarks on the report of M. Chaptal, (late minister of the interiour) to the consuls or former government of France, with an examination of the claim of M. Guiton de Morveau to the discovery of the power of the mineral acid gazes, on contagion : in a letter addressed to William Wilberforce, Esq. M.P. / by James Carmichael Smyth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    En 1774, ces fumigations furent employees avec suc- ces par Vicq-d’Azyr, pour combattre une epizootic qui desoloit le midi de la France. En x 775, M. de Montigny publia deux Instructions sur Ies Maladies Putrides et Pestilentielles, et recom- manda les fumigations acides dont il dit qu’on doit les premieres applications au C. Guyton-Morveau. En 1780, PAcademie des Sciences, consultee sur les moyens de corriger l’insa- lubrite des prisons, proposa les * fumigations acides, en donna la premiere idee au C. Guyton-Morveau. In the year 17 74, these fu- migations were successfully employed by Vicq-d’Azyr, to extinguish an epidemic distemper among horses and ether animals, which deso- lated the south of France. In the year 1775, M. de Montigny published two In- structions upon Putrid and Pestilential Diseases, and recommended acid fumiga- tions. For the first know- ledge of which (he says) we are indebted to the Citizen Morveau. In the year 17S0, the Academy of Sciences, being consulted respecting the proper means of correcting the unhealthy state of pri- sons, proposed acid fumiga- tions, and acknowledged their obligations to C. Mor- veau for the first idea on the subject. En l’An, 2, (1794 vieux In the year 2, (1794, old style), le Conseil de Sant6 stile) the Council of Health redigea une instruction sur drew up an instruction upon les moyens de purifier Pair the means of purifying the * Here, Mr. Chaptal is not perfc&ly correft, as there is no such ex- prellion as fumigations acides in the Memoirc—vid. append,