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Definition of Fumigations
1. fumigation [n] - See also: fumigation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fumigations
Literary usage of Fumigations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Practical Pharmacy: Designed as a Text-book for the by Edward Parrish (1859)
"For such fumigations, sulphuretted hydrogen is generated by decomposing sulphuret
of potassium or calcium with muriatic or nitric acid; nitric acid by ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1818)
"Description des Appareils à Fumigations, &c. ; ie A Description of the Fumigating
Apparatus established on the Plan of M. D'Arcet, at the Hospital of St. ..."
3. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1889)
"Mercurial Fumigations.—Dr. Corbin, of Brooklyn, has just published some ...
The fumigations are repeated as found necessary, and for several days up to and ..."
4. Dietetical and Medical Hydrology: A Treatise on Baths : Including Cold, Sea by John Bell (1850)
"That there is no exhalation of sulphur from the bodies of those who have made
use of the sulphurous fumigations. CHAPTER L. VAPOUR BATHS (concluded) ..."
5. Journal of the Society of Arts by Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1866)
"With respect to fumigations of the places where boasts in kept, all confidence
in them must fall to tho ground •leaner the opinion of the air's being a ..."
6. The London Medical Gazette (1829)
"A few words still remain to be said upon the subject of mercurial fumigations.
These, which were applied generally to the whole surface of the body, ..."
7. The Medical Formulary: Being a Collection of Prescriptions, Derived from the by Benjamin Ellis, Robert Pennell Thomas (1868)
"K. —Fumigations. Fumigations are for the most part used to purify infected air
by absorbing or otherwise counteracting deleterious gases. ..."
8. The Principles and methods of therapeutics by Adolphe Gubler (1881)
"The part which water performs in fumigations.—Humidity of the atmosphere. ...
Fumigations with aromatic substances date back to the highest antiquity. ..."
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