On Sulphurous Acid as a Remedy for Cholera
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In the first place, the qualities of sulphurous acid are worthy of note. "It is a powerful deoxidising agent, disinfecting and antiseptic, and destructive to vegetable life. It destroys the germs of fungi in wounds, of parasitic lichen on the skin." {Vide Squire's Companion to the British Pharmacopoeia, Art. Sulphurous acid.) Should cholera be due ^as some have supposed) to the presence of a fingus in the blood, which rapidly multiplying, destroys its vitality, and causes separation of the serum from the corpuscles, we may imagine sulphurous acid likely to prove beneficial in the disease. Secondly it has been noticed that the workmen in the gunpowder manufactory at .Madras enjoy a complete immunity from cholera, (I am not acquainted with the condition of other gunpowder manufactories in this respect), and as in the pr-'Cess of manufacturing powder the compound is exposed to a very high temperature, as high as 500?, I believe it is possible that the immunity is due to the constant inhalation of evolved sulphurous acid gas. But, in the third place, the facts mentioned by Dr. Burg in his pamphlet " Du Cuivre contrc le Cholera'as re
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