History and value of antiseptics : together with remarks on antiseptic dressings, read before the Surgical section of the Suffolk District Medical Society, April 7, 1886 / by Ernest W. Cushing.

  • Cushing, Ernest W. (Ernest Watson), 1847-1916.
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1886
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Credit: History and value of antiseptics : together with remarks on antiseptic dressings, read before the Surgical section of the Suffolk District Medical Society, April 7, 1886 / by Ernest W. Cushing. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    if a tul)e of decalcified bone (such as manufactured by Grosveuor & Richards) has been used, that also will l)e absorbed. He who will learn the system, and carry it out in its details, will be well rewarded in the sjilendid results he will obtain ; he wlio will not do so, has no right to practise — or, rather, malpraetise— surgery. .Something can l;)e learned from the excellent works on the subject now extant; Init the true way to learn is, to o-o to the nearest hosi'ital wliere the system is fully carried out, and see the details, obserye the results, acquire a faith tliat will remove mountains; then the books and pai>ers are of some real yalue in putting one in minil of what he lias seen, but might forget. For all this wcirk various antiseptics are necessary; and tlie profession is Ibi-tunate that the preparation of these has now become a sj ecialty with Grosvenor & Richards of Boston and New York, manufacturers of Surgical and Medicinal Plasters, Antiseptics, and Absorbents. The ex- {Dense is considerable in aiiplying permanent dressings thoroughly ; but if a wound has only to be dressed two or three times, instead of ten times as often, it is a wise economy of time and money to use the l)est, to say noth- ing of the diminution of the suffering of the patient, and tlie gain ni time. t'ertaui things, then, the surgeon must have besides a