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Excerpt from The Therapeutic Gazette, 1889, Vol. 13: A Monthly Journal of Physiological and Clinical Therapeutics But the particular writer of antiquity who has the most to say respecting the antiseptic properties of sulphur is certainly Pliny. He tells us that in the island of Milo there exists an excavation whence issue sulphurous vapors. When epidemics prevail in the island, the in habitants enlarge this excavation, in order that the sulphurous vapors may be more abundant, and penetrate the houses and purify the country. But let us come down to a more modern period, and examine on what experimental bases is established the antiseptic value of sulphurous fumigations. These experiments, relatively recent. Have all pertained to the de struction of the virulent properties of certain products, or to the sterilization of certain micro-organisms. In the work of Sternberg, which I have ai ready mentioned, he has given considerable prominence to sulphurous acid, and has shown that the combustion of five grammes per cubic metre of sulphur sterilizes vaccine in the liquid state, and that it is necessary to increase the quantity to sixteen grammes to effect the sterilization of dried vaccine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.