. Bacteriology and surgical technic for nurses. Nurses and nursing; Operations, Surgical; Bacteriology. 150 SURGICAL TECH NIC. dressing may be applied over the collodion as a further protective. Horsley'^ s wax is made of seven parts of beeswax to one part each of almond oil and salicylic acid. Rubber adhesive plaster is at times used in the later stages of wound-healing, for the purpose of drawing the edges together. The chief objection to its use is that it cannot be thoroughly sterilized. A protective dressing may be applied over it in the usual way. Rubber plaster is also used to take the


. Bacteriology and surgical technic for nurses. Nurses and nursing; Operations, Surgical; Bacteriology. 150 SURGICAL TECH NIC. dressing may be applied over the collodion as a further protective. Horsley'^ s wax is made of seven parts of beeswax to one part each of almond oil and salicylic acid. Rubber adhesive plaster is at times used in the later stages of wound-healing, for the purpose of drawing the edges together. The chief objection to its use is that it cannot be thoroughly sterilized. A protective dressing may be applied over it in the usual way. Rubber plaster is also used to take the place of band- ages where these are inconvenient or difficult of Fig. 138.âVaginal tampon, sterilized and placed in a gelatin capsule ready for use (Hirst). Oiled silk or rubber protective is used when it is desirable to prevent sticking of the dressings to the wound, as in ulcers, and skin-grafting. The mate- rial is applied in narrow strips which â overlap each other like shingles. The strips are sterilized by wash- ing in cold soap-suds and soaking them in a i : 250 solution of corrosive sublimate. They are then rinsed in sterile water or saline solution, in which they are allowed to float until needed by the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stoney, Emily M. A. (Emily Marjory Armstrong); Griffith, Frederic Richardson, ed. Philadelphia, London, W. B. Saunders company


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