. Minor and operative surgery, including bandaging . jar is filled with water, and thisis allowed to fall drop by drop upon the part to be irri-gated, which should be placed upon a piece of rubbersheeting so arranged as to allow the water to run off intoa receptacle, to prevent wetting the patients bed. Thewater employed may be either cold or warm, in accord-ance with the indications in special cases. If it is desiredto make use of antiseptic irrigation, the water is impreg-nated with carbolic acid or bichloride of mercurv; a1 : 5000 to 1 : 10,000 bichloride solution, or a 1 : 60* car-bolic ac
. Minor and operative surgery, including bandaging . jar is filled with water, and thisis allowed to fall drop by drop upon the part to be irri-gated, which should be placed upon a piece of rubbersheeting so arranged as to allow the water to run off intoa receptacle, to prevent wetting the patients bed. Thewater employed may be either cold or warm, in accord-ance with the indications in special cases. If it is desiredto make use of antiseptic irrigation, the water is impreg-nated with carbolic acid or bichloride of mercurv; a1 : 5000 to 1 : 10,000 bichloride solution, or a 1 : 60* car-bolic acid or acetate of aluminum solution, being frequentlyemployed with good results. Antiseptic irrigation employed in this manner will befound a most useful method of treating lacerated and con-tused wounds of the extremities in which the vitality of9 130 MINOR SURGERY. the tissues is much impaired; in such cases water at atemperature of 100° to 110° F. should be preferred tocool water. Under the use of warm irrigation it is sometimes sur- Fig. Apparatus for continuous irrigation. (Esmarch.) prising to see tissues apparently devitalized regain theirvitality in a short time; the absence of tension from thenon-introduction of sutures and firm dressings, and thewarmth and moisture kept constantly in contact with thewound by this method of irrigation, are the importantfactors in the attainment of this favorable Irrigation.—In this method of irrigation cold COLD-WATER DRESSINGS. 131 or warmth is applied to the surface by means of cold orwarm water passing through a rubber tube in contact with Fig. 123.
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