Hygienic measures in relation to infectious diseases / ... By George H. F. Nuttall.

  • Nuttall, George Henry Falkiner, 1862-1937.
Date:
1893
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    instruments. Finally the hands and forearms can be immersed in sublimate solution (i:i,ooo) for ten minutes. (The action of these agents is chiefly one of oxidation, This is the only method of hand disinfection which has stood the test of recent bacteriological examination.) {c) Preparation of Operating Table and Room. No dust should be present in the room. All removal of dust should be done with a moist cloth or swab moist- ened with carbolic acid (five per cent.) or sublimate (i : 1,000). No currents of air should be permitted ; doors and windows should be kept shut, (^) Disinfection of Instruments and Vessels. Instruments are best sterilized by being maintained a half hour at 100° C. (212° F.) in the Arnold or other steam sterilizer. Rusting of instruments is prevented by their immediate- removal from the sterilizer whilst hot. Disinfection of instruments by means of one per cent, soda solution (Schimmelbusch)^ maintained at boiling point for five minutes has also been used, and is applica- ^ Behring showed that soda lye at 85° C (usually of the concen- tration 1.4^) invarably killed anthrax spores within ten minutes and often in less time. Schimmelbusch showed the pyogenic staphylococci and B. pyocyaneus to be killed by an exposure of three seconds to boil- ing \% soda solution, and anthrax spores were killed in two minutes.