IMPROVED HYPODERMIC SYRINGE AND REMEDY CASE.

Sterilization of Hypodermic Syringe

Sir,?With reference to the query on p. 297 of your May issue, the method used by me for sterilizing syringes Js described below:? I carry a few " Soloid " examethylenetetrainine (B. W. & Co.) and a spoon in my injection outfit. The needle !s boiled in the spoon over the burning soloid which gives out a good heat. The boiling water is also drawn into the syringe several times. I have given a goo...

A Case of Suppuration of an Inguinal Gland, Treated by Hypodermic Syringe

The perusal of Mr. Bishop's case, published in the Indian Medical Gazette for December last, induces me to send'you the following, which may not be deemed uninteresting. Under circumstances similarly situated as Mr. Bishop I had some time ago under my observation a young'mnn (European) suffering from the above-named compbint. He beinothen in a very debilitated condition, due apparently to malarial

An Improved Syringe for Injecting Precise Amounts

The method described by Rosenau 1 for injecting precise amounts of fluids into animals is excellent. In the practical application of this method certain difficulties have however been encountered, which, it is believed, can be overcome by improvements in the syringe herein described. The time reqtfired for removing the bulb of and measuring the salt solution into the syringe to wash i t out, af...

Notes on a Case of Gastrostomy, and on Hypodermic Alimentation

Manual of Hypodermic Medication

and Bricon. Translated from the Second Edition, with Additions by Andrew S. Currie, M.D. London: H. K. Lewis. 1887. Dr. Currie has done good service in giving us a translation of this book, as it is most desirable that English readers should be made familiar with foreign works, that have been well received in their own country. There is first a most meagre history of the hypodermic method and a...