Catalogue of surgeons instruments and medical appliancesElectro-therapeutic apparatusSundries for the surgery and sick-room, medicine chests, etc . Fig. 7S2. Specimen Jars (Fig. 783)— These Jars are made entirely of glass, with athin rubber medium under the lid to make the Tarair-tight. The lid is fastened down with an outer metallicclamp; on the inner surface of the glass cover isattached a glass ring, for conveniently suspendingthe specimens. Height 3 3 3 +i 4^ 4i 6 6 6 6 idth. .4 7 10 6 8£ n£ 8 12 15 18 „Price ..20 2/9 3/0 3/0 3/6 4/0 6/6 8/0 9/0 10/0 sizes to F
Catalogue of surgeons instruments and medical appliancesElectro-therapeutic apparatusSundries for the surgery and sick-room, medicine chests, etc . Fig. 7S2. Specimen Jars (Fig. 783)— These Jars are made entirely of glass, with athin rubber medium under the lid to make the Tarair-tight. The lid is fastened down with an outer metallicclamp; on the inner surface of the glass cover isattached a glass ring, for conveniently suspendingthe specimens. Height 3 3 3 +i 4^ 4i 6 6 6 6 idth. .4 7 10 6 8£ n£ 8 12 15 18 „Price ..20 2/9 3/0 3/0 3/6 4/0 6/6 8/0 9/0 10/0 sizes to Fig. 783. Section XIV. Surgeons Instruments and Appliances. 191 Apparatus for Sterilizing Instruments— Various methods have been tried to disinfect instruments by meansof hot air ovens, steam sterilizers, or strong antiseptic solutions, butnone of them have proved satisfactory. Instruments exposed to rsteam most invariably rust, causing- muchannoyance and no little expense for subsequent repairs. Hot aircurrents are injurious to the temper of steel and dull the edges ofcutting instruments, while the method of simply immersing instrumentsin an antiseptic solution should not be countenanced, as it is not at allreliable. Bacteriological experiments have proved beyond question thatmicro-organisms of ordinary pus and green pus are destroyed by boilingwater within a few seconds, and germs of anthrax within a few immersing instruments in boiling water from one to three minutes athorough sterilization is accomplished. One per cent, of soda should always be added to the water, as
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