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Excerpt from Chemical Disinfection and Sterilization
Very early in the history of the human race we find the use of aromatic substances used to mask the presence of noxious odours. Sulphur has been employed from the earliest times, and many descriptions of its uses are given. Ulysses (odyssey) says to his old nurse: Old woman, bring me sulphur and fire in order that I may free the air of its poison and purify this palace. In the time of Hippocrates, sulphur was regarded as an antidote against plague. Ovid makes mention of the fact that sulphur was employed by the shepherds of his time for bleaching fleeces and for purifying their wool from contagious diseases. During the plague of Athens, Acron, according to Plutarch, stayed the spread of epidemic by lighting fires in the middle of the public places and in the streets where deaths had occurred, and the lighting of fires during times of plague has been customary until quite recent times. 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.
