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... known treatment the patient will probably die . Tests . - The tests for carbolic acid have often failed , even when it has been smelt strongly in the animal fluids . The odour is , therefore , in cases of poisoning , the most reliable ...
... known treatment the patient will probably die . Tests . - The tests for carbolic acid have often failed , even when it has been smelt strongly in the animal fluids . The odour is , therefore , in cases of poisoning , the most reliable ...
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... known . It is a colourless , uninflammable , irrespirable gas , having a slight pungent odour and feebly acid taste . Its chemical formula is CO2 ; its equi- valent is 44 ; its relative weight , 22 ; and specific gravity , 15203. It may ...
... known . It is a colourless , uninflammable , irrespirable gas , having a slight pungent odour and feebly acid taste . Its chemical formula is CO2 ; its equi- valent is 44 ; its relative weight , 22 ; and specific gravity , 15203. It may ...
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... known strength , and a dilute alkaline fluid also of known strength . The acid solution must in all cases be diluted so as to contain an exact equivalent number in grammes or grains of the acid in 1000 c . c . or parts . For instance ...
... known strength , and a dilute alkaline fluid also of known strength . The acid solution must in all cases be diluted so as to contain an exact equivalent number in grammes or grains of the acid in 1000 c . c . or parts . For instance ...
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... known . Certain it is , that , even much diluted , it stops the amæboid movements of living cells , destroys or kills vibrios , and acts deleteriously on vege- tation . It has been suggested that , as the acid is always present in towns ...
... known . Certain it is , that , even much diluted , it stops the amæboid movements of living cells , destroys or kills vibrios , and acts deleteriously on vege- tation . It has been suggested that , as the acid is always present in towns ...
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... known as Pettenkofer's , is better . It may be shortly defined as follows : Baryta - water of definite strength is prepared and accurately standardised by a standard solution of oxalic acid . A portion of this baryta - water is then ...
... known as Pettenkofer's , is better . It may be shortly defined as follows : Baryta - water of definite strength is prepared and accurately standardised by a standard solution of oxalic acid . A portion of this baryta - water is then ...
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Page 192 - drain" shall mean and include any drain of and used for the drainage of one building only, or premises within the same curtilage, and made merely for the purpose of communicating therefrom, with a cesspool or other like receptacle for drainage, or with a sewer into which the drainage of two or more buildings or premises occupied by different persons is conveyed : The word " sewer" shall mean and include sewers and drains of every description, except drains to which the word
Page 479 - ... rates and taxes, and tithe com mutation rentcharge (if any), and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses (if any) necessary to maintain the same in a state to command such rent...
Page 21 - Where the drug or food is a proprietary medicine, or is the subject of a patent in force, and is supplied in the state required by the specification of the patent ; (3.) Where the food or drug is compounded as in this Act mentioned ; (4.) Where the food or drug is unavoidably mixed with some extraneous matter in the process of collection or preparation.
Page 404 - Any pool, ditch, gutter, watercourse, privy, urinal, cesspool, drain, or ashpit so foul or in such a state as to be a nuisance or injurious to health :
Page 404 - For the purposes of this act, 1. any premises in such a state as to be a nuisance or injurious to health; 2.
Page 370 - ... and whenever it appears to him that the intervention of such officer is necessary in consequence of the existence of any nuisance injurious to health, or of any overcrowding in a house, he shall forthwith inform the medical officer thereof.
Page 21 - No person shall mix, colour, stain, or powder, or order or permit any other person to mix, colour, stain, or powder any article of food with any ingredient or material so as to render the article injurious to health, with intent that the same may be sold in that state...
Page 329 - The court-leet, or view of frankpledge,(x) which is a court of record, held once in the year, and not oftener,(^) within a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet: being the king's court, granted by charter to the lords of those hundreds or manors.
Page 537 - Sewer includes sewers and drains of every description except drains to which the word drain interpreted as aforesaid applies, and except drains in or under the control of any authority having the management of roads, and not being a local authority under this Act.
Page 370 - He shall enter from day to day, in a book to be provided by the sanitary authority, particulars of his inspections and of the action taken by him in the execution of his duties. He shall also keep a book or books, to be provided by the sanitary authority, so arranged as to form, as far as possible, a continuous record of the sanitary condition of each of the premises in respect of •which any action...