Dr. R. H. Goolden calls attention in the _Lancet_ to the value of
chloride of lead, which he says is the most powerful deodorizer and
disinfectant. To prepare it for use, he directs to take half a drachm
of nitrate of lead, dissolve in a pint or more of boiling water; then
dissolve two drachms of common salt in a bucket of water, and mix the
two solutions together; allow the sediment to subside.
The clear supernatant fluid will be a solution of chloride of lead.
A cloth dipped in this solution and hung up in a room will sweeten
a fetid atmosphere instantaneously; or if the solution be sprinkled
over the bed-clothes or clothing of a fast decomposing body, it will
produce a like result.
Even the tarnishing of gold and silver ornaments may be prevented,
by a rag dipped in the solution being hung up in the room or window
where they are exposed.
He relates some striking instances of the instantaneous and efficient
action of this preparation.