DISINFECTING WATER

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 3, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 31.

DISINFECTING WATER.

“From numerous and extensive experiments made by Professor Paterno and reported in La Tribuna (Rome), it appears,” says the American Inventor, “that by adding to impure water, even that containing pathogenic microbes, an extremely small quantity of chlorid of silver there is accomplished the complete disinfection of the water. For this purpose two milligrams, or at most two and one-half milligrams, of the chlorid are sufficient, absolutely, to sterilize a liter of water and to eliminate every danger of infection. The process is so simple that one can not expect any improvement upon it in the future; it may be used by any one and in any condition of life, the sterilization being complete after a few minutes—ten at the most—and no apparatus being necessary beyond a small vial with a solution of chlorid of silver. The water keeps its flavor and all of its properties without modification, only undergoing a slight whitening, which disappears after a few hours of repose.”—Literary Digest.