. Antiseptic surgery : an address delivered at St. Thomas's Hospital : with the subsequent debate to which are added a short statement of the theory of the antiseptic method, a description of the materials employed in carrying it out, and some applications of the method to operations and injuries in different regions of the body, and to wounds received in war. carbolic solution, and afterwardswith a camels-hair brush thoroughly disinfected every partwith spirit solution 1 in 10, passing the brush an inch ormore beneath the bone where the dura mater had beendetached by the extravasation. The ma
. Antiseptic surgery : an address delivered at St. Thomas's Hospital : with the subsequent debate to which are added a short statement of the theory of the antiseptic method, a description of the materials employed in carrying it out, and some applications of the method to operations and injuries in different regions of the body, and to wounds received in war. carbolic solution, and afterwardswith a camels-hair brush thoroughly disinfected every partwith spirit solution 1 in 10, passing the brush an inch ormore beneath the bone where the dura mater had beendetached by the extravasation. The margins of the extensive skin-wound were nowsutiured with gut, three drainage-tubes were inserted, eachone being fastened to the skin by a gut stitch, and such anantiseptic dressing was applied as is shown in fig. 45. HEAD INJURIES. 231 Next day the dressing had to be removed on account ofvery copious bleeding, which had saturated the gauze. The following day the dressing was again changed for thesame reason. On the fourth day two drains were removed; the woundappeared healed by first intention, except at the drainageopenings. The gut sutures were not removed; those securingthe drains gave way by the time their object had been served. The patient from first to last had not the smallest—themost trivial—symptom attributable to this extensive injury. \. Fig. 45.—Shows the external appearance of the dressing applied in this case,and the position of the wound made in the scalp. His voice was strong, his intelligence perfect, his bodilyfunctions normal, except the pulse, which was slow. Thetemperature the evening of the accident reached 100° ; nextday it became normal and never afterwards rose again. Hisonly complaint was that his bed was somewhat hard, and hisappetite too good for the diet he was kept upon. There can be no reasonable doubt that, had the depressedbone not been removed, the serious haemorrhage would havecontinued, and, no sufficient outlet being provided, the blo
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