On Antiseptic Surgery and Its Application in Military Hospitals and in the Field

civil hospitals. Any peculiarities of military service, therefore, which affect the employment ofListerism, do not operate in them to any great extent ; and in them, the antiseptic treatment may be rigorously carried out, unaffected by the disadvantages under which other descriptions of military hospitals exist, as regards the practice and development of this method of surgical treatment. Yet, in these permanent military hospitals, some selections of the various methods of antiseptic practice have to be made, so as to bring the treatment, as far as possible, into accordance with established military organization. For instance, it is expedient that economy should be studied as far as efficiency will permit ; that methods of treatment be adopted which can be properly carried out in conformity with the attendance and nursing at our disposal ; that those means which give the quickest results be used, that is, those calculated to make the " constantly sick" periods as short as possible. But in this, as in most other matters, there are two views of the question : we must remember that, if the