To the Editor of "The Indian Medical Gazette." Sir, ?Bacteriological tests show that it is very difficult to sterilize completely the hands of the surgeon, and it is well known that only a very few number of antiseptic agents answer the purpose, but almost all of them are inconvenient and unpleasant to the hands to use. Further, it is difficult to obtain the antiseptic agents everywhere. On the...

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 ...

A lad about fourteen years of age, was admitted into the dispensary 9th November, 18(38, suffering from necrosis of the right tibia: numerous sinuses led down to the bone, and the limb presented a most unnatural appearance from the combined presence in it of portions of nearly two shafts of tibiae, the newly formed bone, and part of the dead one in course of absorption. The lad's general health...