8. Glycerine

Penicillin Treatment of Glycerine Vaccine Lymph

Hobbs' Treatment with Glycerine Applied to Male Urethra in Gonorrhœa

gonococcus (see below). Neither local irrigation nor oral therapy producing antiseptics in the urine can affect organisms in the Littre gland. Intravenous therapy that aims to apply the antiseptic direct to the organisms in the glands through the blood stream is more rational, but in practice is unsatisfactory. Mercurochrome and acriflavine are not sufficiently specific to kill the organisms in...

Palliative wound management: the use of a glycerine hydrogel.

This article describes the use of a topical glycerine hydrogel and the role it can play in the management of malignant fungating wounds. The value of the product is reviewed in two case studies. The authors accept that no significant statistical evidence can be offered from the case studies, but highlight the benefit of the product to the patients' quality of life.

Preservation of rabies virus RNA from brain tissue using glycerine.

The challenge virus standard (CVS) strain and a wild isolate from a Mexican child who died of hematophagous bat (Desmodus rotundus)-transmitted rabies were injected intracerebrally into BALB/c mice. Brains obtained from infected mice were immersed in 80%, 50%, and 40% glycerine/phosphate-buffered saline (PBS). RNA was extracted from brains on days 1, 2, 3, 7, 21, and 60, and reverse transcripta...

Glycerine-Saline for the Preservation of Dysenteric Stools

' It has been found that neutral glycerine-salif16 solution as prepared in military hospitals in this district is unsuitable. The preparation of a buffered glycerine-saline solution containing an indicator is described. There has been an increase in the isolation of organisms belonging to the enteric, dysentery and cholera groups from specimens sent in this solution from out-stations. The solut...