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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 301 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FUMIGATION (from See also:Lat. fumigare, to See also:smoke) , the See also:process of producing smoke or fumes, as by burning See also:sulphur, See also:frankincense, See also:tobacco, &c., whether as a ceremony of See also:incantation, or for perfuming a See also:room, or for purposes of disinfection or destruction of See also:vermin. In See also:medicine the See also:term has been used of the exposure of the See also:body, or a portion of it, to fumes such as those of See also:nitre, sal-ammoniac, See also:mercury, &c.; fumigation, by the injection of tobacco smoke into the See also:great bowel, was a recognized See also:procedure in the 18th See also:century for the resuscitation of the apparently drowned. " Fumigated " or " fumed " See also:oak is oak which has been darkened by exposure to See also:ammonia vapour.

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