Manual of ophthalmic operations / by F. P. Maynard.

  • Maynard, F. P.
Date:
1908
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Credit: Manual of ophthalmic operations / by F. P. Maynard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    boiling eucaine or alypine solutions appears to have no injurious effect whatever. Using small quantities and boil- ing them is safer than trusting to making the drugs up with weak biniodide or perchloride solutions. For the bottles and droppers Stroschein's are as convenient as any (fig. 6). The rubber teats on the droppers are the Fig. 6.—Stroschein's apparatus. weak part of the apparatus. They can be cleaned by soak- ing for twenty-four hours in mercurial lotion. After a little use they become loose and require tying on to the glass dropper to make them suck up the lotion. This increases the work of sterilization, but cannot be helped. To sterilize them the teats are removed, the glass dropper inverted and the bottle is then heated over the tripod upon a spirit lamp until the lotion inside has been boiled three or more minutes (fig. 7). The steam rising from it sterilizes the dropper. Separate Stroschein's apparatus should be kept for out-patient work and for septic and other cases in the wards. In the present chapter the various possible sources of infection likely to be met with in performing ophthalmic operations have been incidentally mentioned. It will be