Excerpt from The Canada Medical Record, Vol. 13: A Monthly Journal of Medicine, Surgery and Pharmacy; October, 1884, to September, 1885 In the patient's apartments were placed several large dishes, each containing a kilogramme of coal - tar seven or eight tablespoonfuls of oil of tur pentine and about one hundred grammes of oil of cajuput. This mixture was allowed to evaporate. Besides this, he threw upon hot coals, every hour, a quantity of a powder containing equal parts of benzoin and coal-tar, and subjected the patient to fumigation with the vapors thus produced. In addition, accessible parts were washed with a solution of coal-tar and with lime-water. 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.