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Enquire within upon everything
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Robert Kemp Philp
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Fumigation
in
the
usual
way
is
only
the
substitution
of
one
odour
for
another.
In
using
the
above,
or
any
other
disinfectant,
let
it
never
be
forgotten
that
fresh
air,
and
plenty
of
it,
is
cheaper
and
more
effective
than
any
other
material.
1772.
Disinfecting
Fumigation.
Common
salt,
three
ounces;
black
manganese,
oil
of
vitriol,
of
each
one
ounce;
water
two
ounces;
carried
in
a
cup
through
the
apartments
of
the
sick;
or
the
apartments
intended
to
be
fumigated,
where
sickness
has
been,
may
be
shut
up
for
an
hour
or
two,
and
then
opened.
1773.
Coffee
a
Disinfectant.
Numerous
experiments
with
roasted
coffee
prove
that
it
is
the
most
powerful
means,
not
only
of
rendering
animal
and
vegetable
effluvia
innocuous,
but
of
actually
destroying
them.
A
room
in
which
meat
in
an
advanced
degree
of
decomposition
had
been
kept
for
some
time,
was
instantly
deprived
of
all
smell
on
an
open
coffee-roaster
being
carried
through
it,
containing
a
pound
of
coffee
newly
roasted.
In
another
room,
exposed
to
the
effluvium
occasioned
by
the
clearing
out
of
the
dung-pit,
so
that
sulphuretted
hydrogen
and
ammonia
in
great
quantities
could
be
chemically
detected,
the
stench
was
completely
removed
in
half
a
minute,
on
the
employment
of
three
ounces
of
fresh-roasted
coffee,
whilst
the
other
parts
of
the
house
were
permanently
cleared
of
the
same
smell
by
being
simply
traversed
with
the
coffee-roaster,
although
the
cleansing
of
the
dung-pit
continued
for
several
hours
after.
The
best
mode
of
using
the
coffee
as
a
disinfectant
is
to
dry
the
raw
bean,
pound
it
in
a
mortar,
and
then
roast
the
powder
on
a
moderately
heated
iron
plate,
until
it
assumes
a
dark
brown
tint,
when
it
is
fit
for
use.
Then
sprinkle
it
in
sinks
or
cess-pools,
or
lay
it
on
a
plate
in
the
room
which
you
wish
to
have
purified.
Coffee
acid
or
coffee
oil
acts
more
readily
in
minute
quantities.
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
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