The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-06-13
From the New York Evening Post.

The discoveries alleged recently to have been made at
Chicago respecting the operation OF sulphur as coun-
eragen 10 The cholera, has directed public attention TO
an amosphercal element condition, termed Ozone, the
nature OF which is little understood, and about which
scientific men do not to be entirely agreed.
Ozone probably signifies an atmosphencal condition
hostile TO lie, the q being privatve, and The word
etymologically expressing the idea azote.
1t has been talked about for six seven years. and owes
IFS scientific name and fame TO the researches OF German
professor OF the OF Schonben the inventor OF the
celebrated gun cotton He detected its presence in the at
mosphere by some experiments which we hope will be re-
peated by some OF our chemists he smeared Fps OF
paper with the following composition "a drachm OF com
mon starch is mixed with ounce OF boiling water, and
the solution is boiled I'LL tbecomes of the conssience of
that used in the aundry then twelve grams OF odde OF
potassium are to be added, and the whole well mixed
together The presence OF ozone is discovered by the de-
composition OF the potassium salt and the formation OF
the blue iodlde Of starch" This idea Of Professor
Schonbein was followed up by Dr. Mofiat, an English
gentleman who at "A meeting of the British Association
last year. exhibited great number of specimens showing
similar results We have not those proceedings at hand
but believe he is the author OF the Chicago theory
probably derived from those proceedings that the exist
ence OF large Quantities OF ozone IN the AR Is invariably
attended with caarrh and mucous diarrhGa"
1t appears that Professor Schonbein has also
ponded with Professor Faraday very extensively on this
subject The former believes that Ozoneis single body
constituent OF azote, which he considers compound OF
hydrogen and ozone, and the latter analogous to chic
nne In all the communications which Professor Schon
ben has made either to Professor Faraday or the British
Association we do not remember to have noticed his al
fusion TO sulphur a simple body in connexon with
ozone lis sulphates and acids have developed It's exist
ence and he himself appears not to have jumped 10 the
conclusion of the Chicago philosophers
Sulphur which under the new theory is to be the spe-
clc for cholera, mild purgative, and inefficient in
diseases of the skin How stop that thorough dis
organization of the system which we perceive in cholera
is proper subec, for scientific nqury The well known
absence of bile in the discharges of cholera patients, and
the gorgng OF the liver with blood, to require other
agents than simple laxaves, such as sulphur The vir-
tues OF sulphur have been tried recently IN Louisville,
Kentucky, by exploding gunpowder, notion probably
derived from similar experiments made the continent
during the first visitation of cholera, when it was quite
customary to burn gunpowder in dwellings, streets, and
hospitals.
The burning of gunpowder in Louisville followed
with very noticeable decrease of the epidemic whether
the two facts had any dependence upon each other
are not advised.