The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . Used forCleaning and Polishing the InnerSurface of the Finger-nail. water, particular attention being given to the spaces under and around thenails, which are to be kept short and smooth. About five minutes should beemployed in the scrubbing process, which is to be followed by some form ofchemical antiseptic treatment. Rubber Gloves.—I cannot too strongly urge the use of sterile rubber gloves,as a routine measure in confinementcases. No ordinary obstetrician,namely, the so-called general prac-titioner,
The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . Used forCleaning and Polishing the InnerSurface of the Finger-nail. water, particular attention being given to the spaces under and around thenails, which are to be kept short and smooth. About five minutes should beemployed in the scrubbing process, which is to be followed by some form ofchemical antiseptic treatment. Rubber Gloves.—I cannot too strongly urge the use of sterile rubber gloves,as a routine measure in confinementcases. No ordinary obstetrician,namely, the so-called general prac-titioner, and no physician, surgeonor obstetrician, who is at all doubtfulconcerning his personal asepsis, isjustified in attending women in con-finement without utilizing this simpleand effective precaution. Chemical Antiseptics. — Themost generally employed chemical antiseptics are carbolic acid and bichloride or biniodide of mercury. A verylarge number of other chemicals have been suggested and used more or less,but few of them have any qualities which will enable them to displace the sub-. FiG. 191.—Hand Enclosed in RubberGlove. 152 PHYSIOLOGICAL PREGNANCY. stances first mentioned. Among those which have from time to time proveduseful may be enumerated permanganate of potash, oxaUc acid, chlorinated limeand carbonate of soda, alcohol, creolin, lysol, and hydrogen peroxide. Creolinis not often used at present, but lysol, in a two per cent, solution, is employedto some extent as a vaginal douche before labor, when there is reason to believethat there is infection present in the vagina, and also as a solution for instru-ments. It is objectionable for the latter use because it makes the instrumentsslippery, while this lubricating quality is somewhat useful when employed in thevagina. Bichloride of mercury is used in solution for various purposes in strengthsof I : 500 to I : 10,000, and the same is true of the biniodide. The tablets whichare extensively sold are very convenient an
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