Treatise on gynæcology : medical and surgical . r as possible from the wards in which are patients with sup-purating or septic wounds, from the water closets, and, in short, fromall sources of infection. The corners should be rounded off; theremust be no recesses or places not easily accessible for cleansing pur-poses. All the furniture should be movable; seats, tables, stands,should all be of metal, enamelled or varnished, or of glass. After eachoperation, the wall should be washed with a hose attached to a pump,-or to a faucet which admits the water with sufficient force to send itto the mos
Treatise on gynæcology : medical and surgical . r as possible from the wards in which are patients with sup-purating or septic wounds, from the water closets, and, in short, fromall sources of infection. The corners should be rounded off; theremust be no recesses or places not easily accessible for cleansing pur-poses. All the furniture should be movable; seats, tables, stands,should all be of metal, enamelled or varnished, or of glass. After eachoperation, the wall should be washed with a hose attached to a pump,-or to a faucet which admits the water with sufficient force to send itto the most remote corners. 20 CLINICAL AND OPERATIVE GYNAECOLOGY Should the operation not be performed in a hospital, the roomchosen should be carefully prepared at least two days in furniture must be removed; if the walls have not been newlywhitewashed, they must be carefully cleaned, as well as the ceiling,,floor, and woodwork, with cloths soaked in a carbolic solution50 If the house be old, or the room under suspicion, this. fl-t:. Fig. 13.—Collins1 Rotary Atomizer. cleansing should be supplemented by a disinfection with sulphurous:,acid—placing some sulphur (two pounds to each 1,000 feet) upon adish in the middle of the room, setting fire to it, and hermeticallysealing the openings to the chamber during twenty-four hours. During the whole of the operation the temperature of the roomshould be high, in order to avoid all chilling of the patient intuset extra. From 77° F., at least, to 86° F., at most, is necessary. That ANTISEPSIS lis GYNECOLOGY. 21 this be not a dry heat—which would be harmful to the exposed vis-cera—the atmosphere should be saturated with the vapor of carbolizedwater by means of an atomizer. This spray should not be directednpon the operating held, as used to be done in the early days of Lis-terian antisepsis and as many operators still persist in doing. Thestream of vapor should be directed to the middle of the room with anupward and d
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