. Railway surgery : a handbook on the management of injuries . Fig. 23.—The Authors Sterilizer, showing inside tray. not always very portable. A very good one can be madeas follows (see Fig. 23): A copper or tin box, eight bytwelve by six inches deep, with a lid hinged and flanged STERILIZATION. 49 to fit the box snugly, contains a perforated tray restingon corner pieces fastened inside the box about two inchesfrom the bottom. For use, pour water to the depth of an. Fig. 24.—A Twenty-five-Cent Sterilizer. inch into the box, fill the tray with the articles to besterilized, shut the cover, place
. Railway surgery : a handbook on the management of injuries . Fig. 23.—The Authors Sterilizer, showing inside tray. not always very portable. A very good one can be madeas follows (see Fig. 23): A copper or tin box, eight bytwelve by six inches deep, with a lid hinged and flanged STERILIZATION. 49 to fit the box snugly, contains a perforated tray restingon corner pieces fastened inside the box about two inchesfrom the bottom. For use, pour water to the depth of an. Fig. 24.—A Twenty-five-Cent Sterilizer. inch into the box, fill the tray with the articles to besterilized, shut the cover, place the box on a gas, kero-sene, or coal stove, or even over an alcohol lamp, and byboiling the water perfect sterilization of the contents ofthe box is obtained. For transportation, the box can bemade to serve as a carrier for all the dressings and in-struments necessary for any ordinary surgical operation,thus making a complete, compact arrangement, practical,cheap, and satisfactory. A twenty-five cent sterilizer can be made by the pur-chase of two tin pails, the smaller to pass freely into thelarger, leaving a space in the bottom. A bridge is placed 5° RAILWAY SURGERY. at the bottom of the large pail for the smaller to restupon, and the inside pail perforated with holes (seeFig. 24). In lieu of this, an ordinary steamer or kitchen pailcan be made to fill the bill in case of necessity. Of course, these are only suggestions to enable one tograsp opportuniti
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