. Minor surgery and bandaging, including the treatment of fractures and dislocations .. . loride Cotton. This material, which is an important part of most anti-septic dressings, is prepared by soaking absorbent cottonin a 1 : 1000 bichloride of mercury solution for twenty-four hours, and then allowing it to dry. When dry, it ispacked in jars or air-tight boxes. Its great absorbingpower and its elacticity make it, when properly prepared,a most valuable dressing; it is generally employed to coverthe gauze dressing, a number of layers being applied. Borated, carbolized, and salicylated cotton, pr
. Minor surgery and bandaging, including the treatment of fractures and dislocations .. . loride Cotton. This material, which is an important part of most anti-septic dressings, is prepared by soaking absorbent cottonin a 1 : 1000 bichloride of mercury solution for twenty-four hours, and then allowing it to dry. When dry, it ispacked in jars or air-tight boxes. Its great absorbingpower and its elacticity make it, when properly prepared,a most valuable dressing; it is generally employed to coverthe gauze dressing, a number of layers being applied. Borated, carbolized, and salicylated cotton, prepared inthe same manner, are also frequently employed for asimilar purpose. Moist Sterilized Dressings. These may be prepared by steaming the gauze dressingsor by boiling them in covered vessels. DRY STERILIZED DRESSINGS. 131 Dry Sterilized Dressings. These dressings are prepared by sterilizing ordinarygauze with steam. Gauze cut into proper lengths is placedin wire cases and exposed to super-heated steam in an ovenfor a few hours, and is then dried in another oven, removed, Fig. Sterilizing oven, and placed in air-tight jars or boxes. The apparatus re-quired for the perfect sterilization of dressings is expensive,and is not likely to be employed by practitioners, but isused in hospitals where a large number of dressings areconstantly required. A convenient form of sterilizingoven is shown in Fig. 92. Unless the sterilization is per-fect, these dressings should not be employed; the samemethod is employed in the sterilization of instruments. 132 MINOR SURGERY. Methods and Dressings Employed in the Treatment ofWounds to Secure Asepsis. To prevent infection of wounds the various chemicalsterilizers and dressings are employed in different ways,and the principal types of dressings are as follows: Method by Simple Drying. This method is employed in small and not very deepwounds. The edges having been brought together bysutures the surface of the wound is dusted with powderediod
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