The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-04 00:00:00

CROUP.

Our readers are aware that we have at different timcs
touched upon the subject of this dangerous disease, describ-
ing the most recent endeavours of distinguished practi-
tioners to rid the trachea of the false membranes which
encumber it, either by mechanical or by chemical means.
Dr. Ozanam has now communicated to the Academy of
Sciences a series of numerous experiments made with diffe-
rent chemical agents not hitherto tried, and from which we
select the following :—The chloride of potassium dissolves
the false membranes completely in 24 hours; chloride of
sodium in 36 ; a solution of one-hundredth part of bromide
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of chromate of potassium in 10 of water will harden the
of potash, in concentrated solutions, Will
dissolve the membranes in 12 hours. Phosphate
of soda is less active ; the cyanide of potassium in.
a concentrated state will dissolve the membranes in 15
hours; pure glycerine NA 11 soften them in 24 hours; but
the mother-water of wrack soda will effect a complete solu-
tion in four or five hours. Dr. Ozanam concludes from him
experiments that, if it be intended to attack the membranes
by dissolvents, alkalies should be preferred ; and from what
we have quoted above it will appear that the sub-carbonate
and chlorate of potash and the phosphate of soda, so long
advocated, are the lowest on the list in point of efficacy.
If, on the contrary, segregation or separation be aimed at,
then chloride of bromine, bromine itself and chlorine, or
else iodine, perchloride of iron-end chromium, should be
resorted to, since they harden the membrane and make it
detach itself. These conclusions acquire great value from.
the fact that Dr. Ozanam has been pursuing these researches
since 1849. He quotes a singular instance of a cure which
occurred in 1860. A country physician having in a case of
croup attempted to cauterise the false membrane by stick-
caustic, the patient somehow or other swallowed the whole
piece. In an agony of terror the practitioner forced a con-
centrated solution of kitchen salt (hydrochlorate of soda)
down the patient's throat by way of antidote ; and, to his
surprise, not only saved him from the effects of the caustic,
but also cured him of his croup by the same simple remedy.

THE GREAT lIIKHIBITION OF 1862.—The Royal
Charter incorporating the Commissioners of the Great Ex-
hibition of 1862 has been drawn, and is at this moment
before her Majesty for signature. " By the time," says the
Atheneum of Saturday, " these words come under the eyes
of our distant readers Earl Granville, the Marquis of Chan-
dos, Mr. Baring, Mr. C. W. Dile, and Mr. Fairbairn will
have received from the Queen full powers to proceed with
the building and arrangements."

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dying the 29th of July in the same year
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