This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...collateral and supplementary NOT TRUST TO DISINFECTION. 51 to efforts which mainly must be of the other sort. This opinion, as to the very limited degree in which chemistry can prevail against arrears of uncleanliness, does not at all discredit the appeals which are constantly and very properly made to chemistry for ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...collateral and supplementary NOT TRUST TO DISINFECTION. 51 to efforts which mainly must be of the other sort. This opinion, as to the very limited degree in which chemistry can prevail against arrears of uncleanliness, does not at all discredit the appeals which are constantly and very properly made to chemistry for help in a quite different sphere of operation; with regard, namely, to the management of individual cases of infectious disease, and to the immediate disinfection of every thing which comes from them.1 In this latter use of disinfectants, every thing turns on the 52 EVIL RESULTS OF SUCH TRUST. 1 As regards certain procedures on a small scale, we know that, with well-circumscribed matter to work upon, and with chemical action precisely adjusted to its task, we can absolutely kill any given contagium. Taking, for instance, a bit of glass which has on it a charge of vaccine or variolous matter, we know that, if we sufficiently heat it in the flame of a lamp, or sufficiently treat it with certain strong officinal chemicals which act in a like manner, we annihilate the power of infection; and we know that, in the sick-room where lies a patient with any dangerous infectious disease, --say diphtheria, small-pox, or enteric fever, we can to some extent imitate the above acts. Provided that real skill shall direct, and real conscientiousness shall execute, what has to be done, every tangible discharge which passes from the patient, every sheet or towel or handkerchief which any discharge from him has fouled, can be treated with heat or other disinfectant in a way to give at least comparative security against any outward spreading of his infection. It is greatly to be hoped that, with time and with progress of general education, the systematic doing of suc..
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Very Good. No Dj. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall iv, 96 pp plus publisher's ads. Early public health. Bibliotheca Osleriana #3472. One of the greatest sanitary reformers in England. See GM 1626,
