Sterilizing Action of Acids. 9th Report

9th Month Thesis Report

Self-sterilizing inoculating loop.

A self-sterilizing inoculating loop consisting of a step-down transformer and an adjustable timing circuit are described.

Report on the 9th International Congress on Peritoneal Surface Malignancies

The 9 th International Congress on Per itoneal Sur face Malignancies, sponsored by the Peritoneal Surface Oncology Group International (PSOGI) and organized by the Netherlands Cancer Institute, was held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from October 9 to 11, 2014, with over 650 delegates from 66 countries attending the meeting. With the central theme to summarize the global progresses in peritonea...

Propylene oxide as sterilizing agent.

Liquid propylene oxide added to a variety of disinfectant solutions resulted in a significant reduction of the bacterial spore content of these solutions.

The Hemolytic Action of Inorganic Acids

In his monograph “The Erythrocyte and the Action of Simple Hemolysins,” Ponder (1) states that very little satisfactory work has been done on the hemolytic action of acids and alkalies. Reference to Jacobs’ review in Cowdry’s “General Cytology” (2) and to Hober’s and Bayliss’ discussions of hemolysis and the permeability of the red blood cell (3, 4), as well as to the work on hemolysis by Stewa...