The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-02-21

ria, afterwards from the mpregnation of the air
with the diseased products of the body concentrated
an its influence, by being detained in the holds of
ships, prisons, or wards of hospitals, it becomes
part of the duty of the physician and chymis to dis
cover such substances have the power of destroy
lug such condition of the atmospheric and it must be
remembered, that there many odors capable of
concealng, not of Destroying the state of the air we
have here described. 1t is therefore necessary to
search for substances that will decompose it, With
regard to this state OF the atmosphere, has been
found that nothing eflicacious in DESTROYING it as
chlorine, and if you dftse it through an apartment
an the proportion of part dissolved in ten of wa
ter, 1t will infahbly decompose any infectious mat
ter, and will render the air salubrous. We, there
fore, avail ourselves of chlorine for the purpose but
In consequence of its noxous effect upon respiration
1t is sometimes difficult to bear, especially by persons
whose lungs weak. II may be used, as lately in
troduced under the name of chloride, oxymuriate
OF lime, which gives out certain portion of chlorine
who { materially deterorating the atmosphere, thus
forcing the solution of the chloride from one vessel
TO another; and by sprinkling cloth with it, the chic
rne gradually given out and thus, in the one way
or the other the pureactye matter in the air NAV be
destroyed by the action of chlorine. Nitric acid is
powerful corrector of putreiaction infection and
we may generate the nitrous vapour very readily by
mixing nitre and sulphurc acid together in saucer
or any other shallow vessel, and applying heat it is
BOT good disinfectan chlorine, but when that
member that the substances employed to bad
smell do not destroy its infectious nature so that
omatc vinegar, pastes, and SO on are only useful on
account of their agreeable odour The operation of
tumigation which very simple one, is not sufh-
iently attended to, especially in prisons and hosp
falls such buildings should be fumigated periodically
whether it may appear to be absolutely required or
not and IN private houses where certain fevers have
prevailed, especially scarlana, every thing should be
well ftimgated which the patient may have used, es-
pecially the bedding and linen.--Braade'8 Lectures
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WAR.
The following beautiful extract is from the pen of
DIR Chalmers. who has written with such force and en-
orgy in defence of the Christian Religion. 1t pre-
-sents in strong light the ferocious aspect of War;
when undisguised by the false spendors which sur
round it, that nothing ought to be read with greater
delight, by people whose duty, interest, and desire
it is to encourage and adopt pacific policy towards
ether nations.
'One great obstacle to the extinction of war; is the
way in which the heart of is carried off from its
barbares and its horrors by the spendor of its de-
ceitful accomplishments. There is feeling of the
sublime in contemplating the shock of armies lust as
there is in contemplating the devouring energy of
tespest and this eleyates and engrosses the whole
man, that his eye is blind to the tears of bereaved pa
yents, and his is deaf the piteous moan of the
dying, and the shrek of their desolated families
There is gracefulness in the picture of youthful
warrior, burning for distinction in the field and lured
by this generous aspiration to the deepest animated
throng, where, in the fell work of DEATH the opposing
Of Strutyule n ohran aofo