Cases illustrative of the beneficial effects of the clorurets of oxides of sodium and calcium, of the Chevalier Labarraque, of Paris : being the most powerful and effectual general and local antiseptics in the practice of physic and surgery / by J. G. F. Hassel.

  • Hassel J. G. F.
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[1827]
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Credit: Cases illustrative of the beneficial effects of the clorurets of oxides of sodium and calcium, of the Chevalier Labarraque, of Paris : being the most powerful and effectual general and local antiseptics in the practice of physic and surgery / by J. G. F. Hassel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Amidst my occupations, it has been my ambition to pay great attention to the remedies lately proposed by several eminent Medical men practising in various parts of Europe, by which the Healing Art may in time be improved; but, in my humble opinion, amongst the number of modern medicines, there are none more deserving a place in the Pharmacopoeia than those powerful antiseptics which have not until now been in general use. The liquids discovered by the celebrated chemist, Labarraque, and which are called after him, by the French, “ Liqueurs de Labarraque; or, Chlorures d’Oxyde de Sodium et ChauocP The former is the most powerful anti- septic which has ever been tried. The Chloruret of Calcium is less so ; but at the same time a very useful and cheap remedy, when diluted with water, for purifying, sprinkling, and washing in- fected rooms and other contagious places, uten- sils, S;c. 8)C.