A manual of modern surgery : an exposition of the accepted doctrines and approved operative procedures of the present time, for the use of students and practitioners . in water, placed in solution of potassium permanganate (gr. xxx to Oj),for a half hour ; washed and then placed for four hours in a mixtureof sodium hypophosphite 5x, hydrochloric acid fgv, water fBxlviij ;washed in sterile water and then stored in a five per cent, solu-tion of carbolic acid. Sterile gauze made into flat pads or clipped intopieces and tied in a square piece of gauze makes a pretty satisfactoryand cheap substitut
A manual of modern surgery : an exposition of the accepted doctrines and approved operative procedures of the present time, for the use of students and practitioners . in water, placed in solution of potassium permanganate (gr. xxx to Oj),for a half hour ; washed and then placed for four hours in a mixtureof sodium hypophosphite 5x, hydrochloric acid fgv, water fBxlviij ;washed in sterile water and then stored in a five per cent, solu-tion of carbolic acid. Sterile gauze made into flat pads or clipped intopieces and tied in a square piece of gauze makes a pretty satisfactoryand cheap substitute for a sea sponge. Cotton, woolen yarn, or zephyrtied up in gauze, answers the same purpose. These substitutes aremore easily made sterile. Most of them are inferior to the marinesponge as an absorbent. The zephyr or yarn sponge is probably thebest substitute. COUNTER-IRKITATION. When a mild form of counter-irritation is wanted, mustard plasters,tincture of iodine, water of ammonia and similar agents, or dry cups,are applied to the skin ; if vesication or blistering is desirable, can-tharidal collodion, cantharidal cerate or an iron disk heated by im- Fig. Paquelins thermocautery. mersion in hot water is employed. More powerful revulsive agents aresetons, caustic potassa and the red-hot iron. The best form of actualcautery is the thermo-cautery of Paquelin, which consists of a doublemetal tube with a hollow platinum end through which a current ofbenzole vapor is blown by compressing a rubber bulb. If the plati-num portion is first moderately heated in a lamp, it can be raised to,and maintained at, a red or white heat by keeping a constant currentof benzole vapor circulating through it. 154 OPERATIVE SURGERY. This is an exceedingly convenient and manageable cautery or soldering irons, heated in a furnace, answer thesame purpose. The electro-cautery is usually inconvenient for thesurgeons use. The pain felt from the cauterization after the patientrecover
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