New elements of operative surgery . d as ours, or in reality preferable to simple pieces of linen. Article VII.—Filasse. The difficulties that are sometimes experienced in obtaining goodlint, have induced persons to seek for substances that might takethe place of it. Flax, {la Jilasse,) wool, (la bounce,) tow, (Ietoupe,)moss, (la 77iousse,) employed on all occasions by country people,when they have nothing better, were the first that offered. It is true that Jilasse really ;epresents lint under its two princi-pal forms. In the state of prepared ffax it is similar in some meas-ure to lint in th
New elements of operative surgery . d as ours, or in reality preferable to simple pieces of linen. Article VII.—Filasse. The difficulties that are sometimes experienced in obtaining goodlint, have induced persons to seek for substances that might takethe place of it. Flax, {la Jilasse,) wool, (la bounce,) tow, (Ietoupe,)moss, (la 77iousse,) employed on all occasions by country people,when they have nothing better, were the first that offered. It is true that Jilasse really ;epresents lint under its two princi-pal forms. In the state of prepared ffax it is similar in some meas-ure to lint in the form of plumasseaux. In that of tow, {Vetoupe^it would be coarse lint, or the same as gateaux. The difference isthis, that tow and ffax have not been made pliable by friction, orthat the)^ retain a spring, and elasticitj^ and hardness in each oftheii- fibres, which render them at the same time irritating, and notsufficiently well adapted to the absorption of liquids. M. Ganal, it is true, thinks that we may remove these defects. LINT. 107 of flax by beating it and then submitting it to chlorine gas. Butthe trials to which I have subjected this kind of lint, called Viergeby its inventor, have convinced me that it was far from being equalto ordinary lint. In respect to the skin and wounds, tow and flaxare to good lint, what coarse new and rough linen would be to thatwhich is fine and half-worn. Those substances, however, answervery well for lint when we wish to pad or fill up certain voids orcavities in the neighborhood of parts that require gentle , in the apparatus for fracture, or beneath certain compressingbandages, or to distend some natural cavity, we may employ themunder the form of pledgets, rolls, tents, and gateaux, in the placeof lint, which, in all such cases, has the disadvantage of knotting{de se pelotonner) and lumping {dz se grumeler) more easily thantow or flax. In fine, these substances being cheaper and easier toprocure than lint, it is advisab
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