New-York tribune., 1884-12-16
HOW TO USE DISINFECTANTS
DIR. DOREMUs EXPLAINS THE SUBJECT.
,1rusrn.r1yG HOW CoNTAGIoN MAY DE sPREAp-
...,,,v or CHI OEINE.


An orroc of curious glass jars, round, oval,
,n ern.ntinc were grouped table In the lecture
roo,o -, tbe long Island Hospital Medical 'oeBe !"
Rroollvn last evening Professor H. Ogden porchu.
delivered n lecture TO the alumni on Dis'hoo''"''
The nres,dent OF the college, most OF the trustees anu
the focuty and many ladies and gentlemen hs'eneu :"
,bo ,octure which was inerspcrsed with personal i-
- nv opotations In beginning his lecture
NJ Dror,us said: one OF the actions OF my life III
which take particular PRIDE Is the part 'haV ""'
nr yjleced to perform In placing TINS proiesS'oh '
on n permanent platform. Nearly qi'rU'r oi oo'
AGO was installed "a one OF the lnauerhtors Vi wv.
ntuton under the ins spring influence OF DIS Dudley
,,,,u ,,asor and renry; Samuel Sloan president
onI T,vingston X Miller, secretary MY coadutors rom
Ycv-yorx were Dr. Austin Flint, Dr. Frank II. iami'-
ton and DE- John C. Dalton Those from thls sl'e oi 'o
t ,,oro. Dr l. G. Hutchinson. Dr. James ID. IrasK
Dr. DE witt c. Enos. and Dr. hh"ih ~ '""i "
TINS New-York and Brooklyn shpok hahuS'
The doctor demonstrated with. cheiicai experiments
many of his statements Man has. ne contihuen '"o
NJ mortal enemies which are ever ready TO assam
hin, with destruction ono Is invisible ana Is known "'
Ghosts or gases; the other consists OF microscopic
sns knovn under such names ~ those 10 Whch tas'o
and Koch and other celebrated specialists nave gwen
SO much time and Thought These orgah'Shs' ns
hv the microscope possess all the forms ana haps oi
bo ,ost savage beasts and they not less herce an"
deadly in the aggregate Botl classes are To DO iVus
and subduel only by the aid OF chemistry i"o "''.
frat referred TO some OF the ways III Which 'no "i
poued in large centres OF population sewers throw o"
lca,hly gases, wall papers cNnalc arsenic "" "'''
opos Themselves are throwing forth all the time POISON"
, ,,guopccs. the horses which number 10000 III
prolvn oonc contribute to ths Every gas Hight con
snncs a. much oxy gen as eight per7ons' ana gas WIN
continue 10 be a of i'll health until eieetcy h'
snpnlanted IT, The greatest danger to hes th Is when te
sources Of disease collect gradually ana secretly rs " 'e
sirt room whore the complaint 10 contiguous ,u
II is not generally recognized thnt lhcSe F,scs ,n W.,
~ ~ ,iiirv aitr1ciion Dr. OorcmI, exhibited block
OF ordinary trown stone anu onro utva W Va 80 n"'ie tr
flick thrn, III which he showed tlal IL Was ,n
inw ir,ight OF air from the nodth suhclch'l s'Iuns
to extinruish candle. All other stone ne saa, M"s
,,, ar ins. noros lie placed cmpty Jar heheain
ns globe filled with hydrogen gas and te gas Ieelrnl
Ing the pores Of the jar drove o inc nlI ''Ts ,nc
t,hc nud wns seen To ascend In bubbles thpu.h tno
,y,,,r in which the tube was inserted. The hldrog'"
w. ~ -, -, ,,n,l sinUy fnlioycd a natural law IN dis
rncnr the air The jar through when II lrIisl -
moi 80 loro. as the walls OF our houses Al ,n' ci
tons from our bodcs-cNccptng carhonic acid gas a'.
compounds ot hydrogen and these by Tue
,.mr natural law make their WY, cI'Ai, VIZ" III,
of en- deadly impurities. into the most solid stone walls
In this manner contagious diseases nave peel ,u ,
vcycd from the impure c1sot+ "I ono h ar
,hcn housc has become impre mated With disease mere
ventilation will effect no remedy; seral ns 1h. ltp p,
tcriug tho walls are equally futr lic vi var, IN
means haI been tried without success In an on "di ~
The Ncw York Hospital used for %aticns S9',ig @ VII VII
ship fever. room III prominent "1nr, 1 :" ~ W t,y"
Lecame infected with scarlet fever from one OF tWo
patients and the fever continued 10 a,srlt W., M %
standing a efforts to eradicate H. Inc ou i'Io"' IL
dersood the fntiity ot tampcrng with cohhSlnus u,
In IL related In leNtcu- INIT INC nli"lHH a.
which such patients wero sick afterward destroyed
The same method has been advised by many eminent
scientists s-t..o,,. So. ,,i,fcl,
Dr. Dorcmus then showed an exI eriment by wnicn
chlorine gas is used a disnicctant Nhcn usch III
proper quantities chlorine. he said l. an
OF these c0ntalions gases. Chlorine lhlie- WIN lle
hydrogen forming hydrochOric acid. In lS1l great
many deaths had occurred In Bellevue Hosplta from
pypma Ii was feared that tho building woud nave ~
be desIroycd The surgical wards were treated WIN
chlorine aud every trace of the difficulty WAS rcboNeu
Ills method WAS generate the ga- III great lelcl
tanks one room a a timo. Tic whole operation required
and fhTsg
generated Ic result that the wirds-"eIe Ioeu oi
any taint OF the old OlOr.
finder the direction VI Mayor Gunther, DR.. Dorcnus
with the corporation OF Dr. Lewis Sayrc, ana DR. SWi-
burn port pbyslcan. cmI ed the same treatment 10
dislnfcGt vessels from IurOpe. The cholera was thrh
raging there. hut n appeared IN New-> ork'
"The patent element continued the Doctor WIen as
sOcatcd with certain metals possessed OF prcerNaNo
and anseptic powers United with sodium II forms our
salt and the salt preserves the sea a. he SAINTS
uphold the eattn Combined with mercury II forms III
soluble cal0mc and soluble corrosive sublmdtei thc
latter most virulent poison To men, animals ana
Invisible animalcula. Ny own Obsarvaions ON TINS
subject have been confirmed by the greater lab"rn q"
Tasour, KOCH NOlilunge and SiernJcfs SurEoo-MaJor
o. the United states Army