. International record of medicine . eat the side into the open air, or may, in case of an apparatus oflarge proportions, be conducted through a coil of lead pipe tobe condensed in a vessel of cold water. Supply iind drain pipes are provided to the water boiler sothat it may be tilled, or sterilized water drawn off, as desired. The whole apparatus is closed at the top by a tightly fittingcover which sets into a water seal around the periphery. A thermometer fiu- registering the temperature in the steamchamber projects through the cover in the center. The tem-perature will be found to be unifor
. International record of medicine . eat the side into the open air, or may, in case of an apparatus oflarge proportions, be conducted through a coil of lead pipe tobe condensed in a vessel of cold water. Supply iind drain pipes are provided to the water boiler sothat it may be tilled, or sterilized water drawn off, as desired. The whole apparatus is closed at the top by a tightly fittingcover which sets into a water seal around the periphery. A thermometer fiu- registering the temperature in the steamchamber projects through the cover in the center. The tem-perature will be found to be uniformly 100° C. in the steamchamber and 104° C. or more in the boiling water and apparatus is heated by means of a gas pipe (/) runningunderneath and containing a number of jets so that the heatmay be distributed over as great an extent of surface as possi-ble. Owing to the compactness of the apparatus, its compara-tively small size, and the provision for rapid heating, the entiresterilizing process occupies but a short .4. water jacltet; B. water boiler ; C, S d tray ; D. instrument tray ; E, uppersteam chamber ; F, boxes for dressings : G, supply pipe to boiler ; H. tapto sterilized water boiler ; /, faucet to water jacket; .7. e;as supply pipe ;A*, bot-air chamber. The water and soda are boiled in three to live minutes—theinstruments sterilizing in the soda—the upper chamber is filledwith steam in twelve minutes, and in twenty-eight minutes thedressings are sterilized. Two boxes of dressings may be sterilized at one time, and inthe intervals a quantity sufficiently large to last for a number ofoperations, so that, in case of emergency and want of time,only a delay of about ten minutes is occasioned. This shorttime for sterilizing the instruments and water may be madeto occupy the interval of details preliminary to the operation. The dressings, after having been asepticized, are removedin the small boxes (no secondary handling and contaminationbeing permitte
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