A text-book of surgical principles and surgical diseases of the face, mouth, and jaws : for dental students / by H. Horace Grant.

  • Grant, H. Horace (Henry Horace), 1853-1921.
Date:
1902
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Credit: A text-book of surgical principles and surgical diseases of the face, mouth, and jaws : for dental students / by H. Horace Grant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    i: 1500, or even in weaker strength. As it rusts instru- ments, it cannot be employed to sterilize them. After boiling for a short time, sterilized knives, scissors, and needles are best placed in i: 30 solution of carbolic acid. Other instruments should be well boiled in plain water, and then wrapped in a sterilized towel until required by the operator. Formalin, in the strength of i: 10,000, is valued highly as an irrigating fluid in suppurating surfaces. Iodoform is seldom used as a local applicant, owing to its feeble effect and its offensive odor. A variety of S ■•- • '^ J ■ r^--. «•-%. V •■ Fig. 2.—Streptococcus pyogenes ; bouillon culture, twenty-four hours (Ernst). germicides are employed, all having the same general effect, but none surpassing, for general service, those here recommended. In order to produce a pathologic manifestation bacteria must exist in large colonies, otherwise the resistance of nature will prevent any effect. It is estimated that it requires one-third of a billion of the cocci of suppuration to produce a small abscess. Thus it appears that such results of infection necessitate at least from thirty to fifty hours to permit of the multiplication of a focus to such a multitude. By antisepsis is meant the destruction of such colonies,