ASEPTIC AND ANTISEPTIC SURGERY.

Aseptic Surgery

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 ...

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...

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...

Manual of Aseptic Surgery

to reply. Firstly, "modified antiseptic method " should have been " modified aseptic method ; " this is, I believe, a printer's error for the context reads " using antiseptic, lotions for instruments, towels and hands during the operation, and antiseptic powders and dressings afterwards." This could only apply to a modified aseptic and not antiseptic method. Secondly, Major Newman is in error o...