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infecting chamber for fifteen minutes, the same, or but 

 a slightly lower temperature, is reached in the center 

 of large bundles of clothes and bedding. 



Fig. 49. Autoclave (horizontal form). 



Dry Heat. When the rapid sterilization of small 

 instruments, such as hypodermic needles, glass rods, 



