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Sterilization and Disinfection 



The fumes of sulphur do some good, especially when combined with 

 steam, but are greatly overestimated in action and are very destructive 

 to furnishings, so that they are rapidly giving way to the more 

 satisfactory, less destructive, and equally germicidal formaldehyd 

 vapor. 



INHIBITION STRENGTHS OF VARIOUS ANTISEPTICS 



(Adapted from Fliigge, Leipzig, 1902) 



Formaldehyd is probably the best germicide that has yet been 

 recommended. Its use for the disinfection of rooms and hospital 

 wards was first suggested by Trillat* in 1892, but it did not make 

 * "Compte rendu de 1'Acad. des Sciences," Paris, 1892. 



