The chemist and druggist, 15. September 1859

Health, Fresh Air, and Pure Water. BY HER MAJESTY'S ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. (g®[^[o)Ys§ PAT EMT FL1U) fl ® Is harmless and inodorous; contains NASCENT OXYGEN, Nature's true and only puri- fying agent; instantly removes all offensive smells ; renders impure water fresh, and the air pure: when diluted for use is of a beautiful rose colour, not soiling the finest linen ; and is particularly adapted for toilet use, being both refreshing and exhilarating. The Medical Pro- fession have expressed their unqualified approbation of its merits. One gallon makes 200 gallons adapted for use. Patronised by the Board of Health and most Public Departments, Hospitals, Schools, and adopted by the India Council in preference to all other disinfectants. Sold throughout the United Kingdom, in bottles, green, 6d, Is., and 2s.; crimson, extra strong and purified, Is., 2s., and 4s. The following Report has been furnished by the Secretary of State for India in Council, on the subject of a Shipment of 200 Gallons of glSlfS PATE IT FLUID MADE BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE EAST INDIES. No. 456 of 1859. From the Director-General, Medical Department, to the Secretary to Government, Military Department—Dated 21st Feb., 1859. Sir,—Adverting to your Letter, No. 712, of the 26th January, 1858, I beg to report that CONDY'S DISIN- FECTING FLUID, sent out by the Honourable Court of Directors for trial and report, has been distributed •with the greatest advantage. I have received from the several Medical Officers who have made use of this Patent Fluid the highest Testimonials in its favour, as the best of its hind ever introduced. The Surgeons of the European General, Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, and Artillery Hospitals at the Presidency, state that Conhy's Fluid has been used with perfect success in destroying the offensive odour of substancts, and is an excellent application to foul sores and foetid ulcers. The same favourable reports have been received from our stations, and nearly all concur in considering it superior to the Chloride of Zinc, as a deodorizing and disinfecting agent. I beg to recommend that the Home Government be solicite d to send out a further supplv of Condy's Patent Fluid, and ihat I may be permitted to direct the Medical Storekeeper to indent upon England yearly for a sufficient quantity.—I have, &c. (Signed) B. P. BROOKE, Bombay, 21st February, 1859. Director-General to Medical Department. (True Copy) P.M. MELVILLE, Colonel, Secretary to Government. From the "Minute" of the General Board of Health " on Disinfection," &c. " DISINFECTANTS.—The second class of Disinfectants—viz., those which, more or less, rapidly promote complete oxidation of organic matter—are the true disinfectants, and properly so designated. Under this head Condy's Patent Fluid is named, as one of the only agents possessing this property. Its use is also frequently recommended in other parts of this work. From Dr. IETHEBY, Professor of Chemistry in the College of London Hospital, and Officer of Health for the City of London. I have been requested by Mr. Condy to investigate the chemical power of his " Patent Disinfecting Fluid," and therefore I have submitted it to a very severe test, from which 1 find that it lias the power of removing most completely the offensive emanations from all kinds of decomposing organic matter. Its mode of action is not like that of many so-called Disinfectants, which merely delay putrefaction, or mask the bad odours by others which arc scarcely less offensive, but it operates by a perfect destruction of the organic matter, and by the formation of oxy-compounds which are inert. I have tried its corrective powers with the matter of cesspools and the public sewers, with the foul secretions from putrid sores, with the decomposing animal matters in the dissecting-room, with bil^c water, and with other disgusting fluids, and have found that its action is complete. Besides which, when mixed with muriatic acid, it evolves chlorine gas, whic h may he made the means of purifying an atmosphere that could not easily be brought into contact with the liquid. All these properties, together with its easy application and its not being of a poisonous nature, make it one of the most valuable Disinfectants of the present day. March 5th, 1859. HY. LET! 1KBY, M.B., Ma., Ph.D., &c. Wholesale and Retail Agents :—JOHN BELL & Co., Chemists, No. 338, Oxford-street, W.; SAVORY & MOOHE, New Bond-street; BUTLER & HARDING, 4 Cheapside, E.C. Wholesale only-MORGAN BROTHERS, Bow-lane, E.C. Chemical Works—Battersea, B.W.