The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-03-30 00:00:00

THE E tRTH CLOSET AND THE
TREATMENT OF WOUNDS.

Tbe writer of the following remarkable letter is not,
as some of our eontempormiin bare supposed, a menial
mu; bal • Colonel in the Unite' States army. He ii
known to Hr. Monis as S oorregtoodeat, having been
iatrodairid le Mei by lb. Hon. E. Dyer, ex•governor
of Mode lal.nd. U.S.

7. the Editors of the New York Sooting Post.
Giantllieff,—As yos were foremost in calm the
attention of tb• Ameriaan public to the'earth Mout system
..... ...and thus became tbe pioneers of • reform that
promisee not only unspeakable relief from the gravest
&unwise' of our lives, but the preventioe of the
greatest waste cub. fertility of the earth, it is jut
that to you should be communicated an outgrowth of
this system that offers (if possible) a still greeter bonsai
to suffering humanity.
One of the experimental commodes seat out by the
Earth Closet Company eel pissed at the disposal of
Dr. Addison Hume, of the Pennsylvania Hospital,
Philadelphia. Its introduction into tite surgical ward.
where it has been for two weeks la constant use by
about twenty palieste,land bu bsen subjected to the
severest possible Wet, has been so entirely satisfactory,
that ill, proposed to substitute earth dust' for water
*louts wherever these exist in the institution._

At to. time of he introduction there wee lying in
the ward • pitied suffering from a very severe Doe,
pound fleeter* of the lower leg. The wound wee is an
unhealthy state, end its exudations (amounting to •
pint every 24 hoary) were so offeasive as to emus an
offensive and even ammo= demob, whit* the exeelbent
ventilation of it. weed, and it. /seal diainfeseenta,
were hardly able even to mitigate. It oesureed to Dr.
Hewes, to test the power of the dry earth in absorbing
this odoar uit had that of exanimient. The effect was
magical. Wok only was the off/telecom entirely over'
coma, but the effeet on the ehareabir of the wowed
Itself was such as no previous treatment bad sempassed.
The suppuration wan within • few days eo eutirsly
reduced, that the daily donde' of • single half-pint of
web was not eves saturated. The edges of the leek
wound lost their Intuited °barometer. The Interim pain
was entirely relieved, and a healthy granulation has
commenced,
tineh an indication of • newly-found healing agent
'was mot disregarded. On Monday last, being in Phila-
delphia, I wail levied to attend the welling dreamier
of the earth-treated wounds. This is what I maw
Firs!, two patients mitering from severe varieoes misers,
after prolapsed sefferisig, and with little relief from the
usual treatment, have seamed to be offensive to their
WaralllSlON ; they lad their ewes_ growing daily smaller;
an pain and inilsounatioe have Lit them, and they feel
time mortainty of se early sere.
Seeond,—• railroad beakesman, whose band was a
year and • half age crushed betweenthe imitating heeds
of two ears, and who has never been free from pain,
whose hand from wrist to humble was a festering mass
of maims boa. and inflamed flesh, and whoa* system
bag been so rearmed that be *mold not have survived
the amputation (whieh elope weld entirely relieve
him) in now happy in freedom from pain. His flesh
wound has takes on • healthy shareable, and Ids
strength bat returning
Th —soother brakeman, with a presiesly similar
Wary,u t reseired within slew days, wa• imnsediately
treated with dry earth. Its constant appheation has
entirely prevented inflammation, and • healthy healing
of the flab and knitting of the bone will aces :Hum
him to his station with two useful heads.
_ _

Fourth—s fine leftover, on Friday lest, bad three
fingers aunty is elf, sed bin head frightfully tent by •
bone pow* eisaCedhr. masa the Ihst ef I
dry earth (of.. bears after the aceident), has been
free from pain. and will save his bead.
rtftb,—on Saturday last, *labourer, named I. break.
las up omsdemsed sbus. implant an that was I
*barged. The powder burped his free and arms, and
one of his knees untimely, a fragment of the iron baring
templet*, shattered the kneepas. Ris boon sad the
fracture were Immediately *eared with dry earth, sad
the freedom from pain and absence of inflammation
I are be* se marked in his ease as in the others. The
womid is evidently healing, sad there ls every reason to
bops that t hp only result of the Injury will be • stiff
knee.

• few days • woman was brought to
the Hospital with bey mak and • large pert of her body
very severely and dangerously burnt. That she scald
maps long weeks of motty was beyoed hope. Yet on
Kowa, her eye was dear, her voice wee strong, wad
when the doctor asked how she felt, she mid dm was a
great deal hotter, sod had be pain.
deverith,—last Wednesday, an entire breast was re-
moved for anew, and the wowed was dressed with dry
earth. It Is now heeling rapidly. There has been no
Inflammation Dar suppuration, and this woman, 'too,
mho and happy-looking. with healthy complexion and
steady Iroise, spoke far more than bra cheerful words in
thankfalwas for her souL

84;ly witti«L;ir;iiinds to the Viper of Fordingtoo,
who hos soalerred the greatest benefit on the human
roes that it has ever bees given to ono man to &mous.
plied, we must units our thanks to the senior surgeon
of the Penney'vaunt Hospital for thus applying the prin.
oinks of his Invention to Unsaying of life and limb, and
to the alleviation of unspeakable wafering.
And the end, I trust, is not yet. ft memo inevitable
that the passim of smallpox most ito. up their paia
and their- oillmaiveness at this inagie touch of mother
earth. And if it is true that this motagion spr.sds
from it modatioos, may we not hope that Dr. 'Howson
has bound He fists. Hr. Houle hes those of cholera.—
Respectfully,
GEORGE B. WARING, JOll.
New York, Feb. 24th, 18441.

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