This section is from the book "Materia Medica And Therapeutics Inorganic Substances", by Charles D. F. Phillips. Also available from Amazon: Materia medica and therapeutics.
In this malady the vapor evolved from lime chloride has been found serviceable, when the air of the patient's house is impregnated with it as far as possible; the solution should be used as a wash to the face and hands. It is reasonably presumed to act by destroying a fermentative or "germ" source of irritation to the mucous membranes (Elliotson).
 
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