A COMPARISON OF ANTISEPTIC AND NON-ANTISEPTIC METHODS IN SURGERY.

Antiseptic Methods

Antiseptic Surgery in Edinburgh

DrrniNG the past winter session I have enjoyed the privilege of closely watching Professor Lister's practice in the surgical wards of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Having attempted ?with, very imperfect success I am bound to confess?to put in practice Mr. Lister's system of Antiseptic Surgery while officiating as Second Surgeon in the Medical College Hospital, I availed myself, with peculiar i...

Surgery — Antiseptic Vagaries

a pointed stick of orange wood, and the hands scrubbed again; then they should be immersed successively iu solutions of permanganate of potash, oxalic acid, and peroxide of hydrogen; finally, they should be soaked in corrosive sublimate and rinsed with boiled water." Another class of enthusiasts revel in antiseptic polypharmacy. The following (from the American Medico-Surgical Bulletin for May ...

Three Cases of Antiseptic Surgery

a height, with his left arm doubled up under his body. Not finding his usual medical attendant at home, he came to the General Hospital, where I saw him at about 6-30 a.m. I found he had sustained a compound fracture of the forearm, the ulna being broken, about the middle and the radius rather lower down, there being a jagged wound immediately over the seat of the latter fracture which communic...

The Evolution of Antiseptic Surgery: A Retrospect

Iu another address delivered three days subsequently before the Surgical Section of the International Congress, Lister referred to some interesting experiments which he had recently performed, showing that putrid blood in full activity, if largely diluted with water purified by boiling, and mixed with a considerable volume of aseptic serum, failed to occasion putrefaction in that serum, or the ...