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Condy's Solution

A saturated solution of permanganate of potassa is one of the most efficient and elegant of all disinfectants. A tea-spoonful in a soup-plate of water, exposed in a room, quickly removes any offensive smell; when the pink color disappears more must be added. It has been used to remove the smell of bilge-water and guano from ships. A word as to economy:

One ounce of the crystallized salt costs about is over, and the patient is convalescent, as much as a pound of the crude, which is the dress which has been used by the nurse or just as good for deodorizing purposes. The attendant should be destroyed if there are crude gives a greenish solution, which, even no means of fumigation at hand, or it must while cold, but more rapidly and completely be boiled in water to which carbolic acid has upon boiling, passes into the deep red so been added. The same treatment must be characteristic of the permanganate, and is applied to the bed-clothes, &c., which have fit for use. It speedily cleanses foul water been used. BLEACHING.