Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1806-09-22

bLGck yor1it contains an acid PTofef-
for Hofack Of Newyork, in letter to
| DR.. Currie, writes warmly in favor of
| Lime-water, as an excellent remedy
in that fpecies of black vomiting in
which the matter refembles coffee
grounds and offered certificates of
DR.. Bard, and DR.. Charlton, two of
the mott eminent phyGcianS of that
city, in favour Of its fuccefS.
{" In the yellow fever at Alexan-
dria 1909, (fays'Dr. Hall, NJ. X. vol.
81 am indebted TO DR.. Dick,
health officer Of that port, for val
liable prefcription which | ufed
With obvious relief, in the burning
heat of the ftomach, viz. Lime qUater.
This fenfation was evidently induced
by the prelencc of an acid in the to
| mach"
Away, then, with the prepsferous
notion entertained by fome, that
lime water is feeble, or danger
Gus medicine in feverS and that oil
of vitriol is preferable.
Ii now remains TO encounter
! French fragment which has aaailed
our reafon, and fet our teeth on edge.
Abolt the commencement Of the
18th century, DR.. Guyton Morveaux
of France, entertained an idea, that
"e5ntogi0u5 principle" as be terms it,
emanating from purifying fdbitances
was an ammoniacal, or alkaline gas;
and introduced project to dettroy
this gas. &to purify 6lthy habitations
| by the fumes Of oil Of vitriol. with the
admixture of fome commoH falt.
1t was found however, thai the full
phurick acid, though repeatedly
and abundantly let loofe, could nor
correct the contagious gas or air in
France, or in any meafure render
their Perfons, cloathing, or habitation
| clean
Re fought for ammoniacal gas,
I" fbf contagious Paincipt," among the
products OF putrid beef, without iuc-
cef5.
Soon after, this mode of puriGca-
ton was faithfully tried in Spain,
where malignant fevers were preva-
lent tho with no better fuccels.
ID. B. Warden, Efq. fecrctary to
the American Legation in France.
has informed an American correfpon-
dent, in letter dated April 2, 1906,
that protector Dumeril had declared
his conviction of the uleIefsnels of
acid fumigations to deffroy contagion,
Mr.. Dumeril was fent by the
French government TO Spain, in order
to inquire into the nature Of the yell
low fever which has lately been cpl.
demic there.
I" Acid fumigations, (fays Mr.. ID. J
performed in Spain, according TO the
Cuytonian method have been fruitlefs
and troublelome. Many houfes
which had been fumigated by way
OF prevention, before the fever ap-
prared in them, were actually more
Gckly and crowded with patients than
others. When the acid CAFES were
extricated inthe chambers of the fick,
after the diftemper had broke out,
they fhewed no efficacy whatever in
refraining or deItroying it fooner
than ellewhere.'' h ,laa
Ii is by no means FRANCE that this
project has failed, when we conGder
that Lavoilier, as well as mott Of the
wife and learned men of the French
nation, had been put to death by Rob
efpierre, the mott cruel tyrant that
ever difgraced humanity becaulc,
to ufe his own ignominious words,
+" PbilefSpbsr5 1oeYs nat qvanfed tn
France" But it evidently appears
that Philosophers, both moral and
natural if not aUanted were greatly
nssded in the time Of his deluded, tam
atical, and jacobinical career.
Trembling under the terrific, bloody
axe of the voracious Robefpierre,
Thomas Paine, wrote his Age of
Reafsn |; 70 that, by iaving his head,
the contagious principle of infide,ity
has croAed the Atlantic, poi(oned the
minds Of many, and for time, bid
defiance to divines. BY the unremit-.
ted perseverance, however, of this re !