Manual of minor surgery and bandaging for the use of house-surgeons, dressers and junior practitioners.

  • Heath, Christopher, 1835-1905.
Date:
1889
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Manual of minor surgery and bandaging for the use of house-surgeons, dressers and junior practitioners. 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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    In order to render the atmosphere about a wound aseptic, a spray of carbolic acid (1 in 40) worked by hand may be employed ; but a more efficient plan is to employ a steam spray-producer (fig. 55), with a solution of 1 in 20, which is reduced by the high- pressure steam to half its strength. The care of a steam spray-producer should be either undertaken by the house-surgeon himself, or entrusted to a careful dresser, and not be left to a nurse or porter. Fig. 55. If boiling water is put into the boiler (which should be emptied after each time of using), and the spirit-lamp is in good order, a steam-spray should be ready for use in ten minutes, during which time all other anti- septic arrangements necessary can be made. The ' points' through which the steam and carbolic lotion escape should be examined daily, and cleaned by un- screwing them and passing a fine wire from loithin. Picking the points with a pin is the best way to spoil them. The lamp should be filled up with spirit after