Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-03-07
A New Antiseptic.

New York and BOSTON are greatly ex
cited over the discovery nj a new snt,sen.
tic sblution which. IL ia claimed. "a des
tined to revolut,onize all exist,no metbod
for the ransport.tion of nerisbabIe good
hy raj, and son II seems that several
wears ago one Professor r.. +. Humiston,
in a remote western village. was a,nesled
to as a practical cbemist to embalm a bu.
man body for long transportation. This
need came upon him uuexpectedJy snd
his facilities wee meagre bnt his attemnt
was wonde, fully successful Reflect,on
convinced him that the process which TINS
so remarkably preserved a human corpse
could be made To serve living humanity
by the protracted. economical and health
| ful preservation of flesh food
| The study and experiments winch led
M 10 present results have covered three
wears. and have gone along under The COG
| pjzance and announcement of nrom,nent
Eastern gentlemen. among whom are j
Willard RICE. of Boston. brother of Ex.
Governor Rice of Massachusetts and head
of the well-known paper house of Rice
| Kendall & Co: and Edward Burnett also
of Boston, son of DIR. joseph Burnett. a
relative of our Minister to England. Mr..
Lowell, and owner of the celebrated Deer
foot farm near Boston. All the while
confident assertion and general publicity
have been made 10 wait upon actual ac-
complishment, and 1 am but now able To
give to the public, for the first time.
through the Daily News, an outline of
what these discoveries have really done.
as well as of crucial test begun the other
day under my own eve by Samuel w.
johnson, professor of agricultural chemIs-
try in Yale college.
Professor Humiston, seme time since.
claimed that his antlseptic preparations
would preserve meats. fish. fowl. oysters.
milk, cream, etc, in perfect and even i'm.
proved condition, for from three weeks to
three months, and dlsinterested gentlemen
In Boston, Baltimore, and other cities were
asked to witness experiments and assume
charge and control OF articles of food
treated by the new process. MIR. Burnett.
of Boston. at his farm. became the custo
dian of the foods there operated upon.
which were sausages, milk, cream, etc,
merchantable products of the farm. and
which have gwen il great fame. Mr., Bur
nett has signed q statement affirming the
absolute perfection of the antiseptic's
work. He SAYS that he never before could
ship sausa4es during hot weather or the
summer months, without large percent
age cf loss, and never sent seaside custo-
mers cream and milk before. but that last
summer he freely shipped sausages, cream,
milk. etc, treated by the Humiston pr0-
cess, without loss, and that he now en-
plols the antiseptic In all his products.
ships freely without refrigeration or other
agencies, and not only escapes all loss, but
saves heavy expense and gives his custo-
mers a degree of satisfaction they never
expressed before.
Tie antiseptic, pungent, sodaish-look- |
ing powder, had been dissolved in water
the previous evening by Profs. johnson |
and Humiston-perhaps a common wash
tub full, In stone Jars of various sizes-at
winch time Prof. Humiston drank six |
ounces Of the mixture as an evidence of |
Its harmlessness. The meats and fowl, |
punctured in their thicker parts, were |
simply immersed in the hquld; and re.
manned therein from two TO twenty hours |
A small quantity of it was poured into |
and mingled with the cream. The oyst-
ers, after pouring off their liquor. were
immersed In a somewhat different solution
of the sntiseptic adapted to this specially |
difficult task One piece OF steak was
simply wrapped in a towel wet with the
general solution, and laid in the inverted /
lid of Jar. The whole process was so |
simple that child OF dozen years could
perform it with the brlefest verbal Instruc-
ton. AT suitable times the immersed ar