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Drainage tube {continued) : 



in later stages of treatment of wound, 221. 

 use of, in evacuation of serous or purulent col- 

 lections, 221, 222, 223. 

 value of (Saxtorph), 248. 

 first used by author in 1871, 367. 

 Drainage of wounds : a grand thing if could be 



dispensed with altogether, 338. 

 ' Dressed antiseptically ' does not merely mean 

 ' dressed wdth an antiseptic ' but so as to en- 

 sure absence of putrefaction, 87 (footnote). 

 Dressing, antiseptic. See Antiseptic. 

 Dressing, external : cotton wool sterilized by heat 

 as, 338. 

 can exclude septic mischief only in dry state, 



338. 

 to be trustworthy must be charged with some 

 chemical antiseptic, 345. 

 Dressings, carbolic. See Carbolic. 

 Dressing, double cyanide of mercury. See Mer- 

 cury. 

 Dressings, dry. See Dry. 

 Dressing, Esmarch's. See Esmarch. 

 Dressings, water. See Water. 



Dry dressing of wounds, 290 (footnote) ; has anti- 

 septic influence by causing inspissated state 

 of serum, 290 (footnote). 

 with cleanliness, primary union very frequent 



under, 356. 

 Syme's, 517, 518. 

 Dunlop : amputation at shoulder-joint under anti- 

 septic system, 130. 

 Dunstan, Professor : composition of double cya- 

 nide of mercury and zinc, 329. 

 improvement in preparation of cyanide of mer- 

 cury and zinc, 339. 

 formula of double cyanide of mercury and zinc, 

 358 (footnote). 

 Dupuytren : modification of Lisfranc's method of 



amputation at shoulder-joint, 400. 

 Dust, atmospheric : causes development of organ- 

 isms and decomposition, 47. 

 the essential cause of organic development and 



putrefactive changes in urine, 60. 

 filtered of germs by air passages, 61. 

 Tyndall's investigations of, by means of beam 



of condensed light, 175. 

 cotton Avool filters air of, 178. 

 may be disregarded in operations, 342, 350. 

 first hint (1881) that it might be disregarded in 



surgical practice, 499. 

 harmlessness of, demonstrated (1890), 499. 

 conclusion that antiseptic irrigation is not 

 required justified by subsequent experience, 

 500. 

 Dust of hospitals : pyogenic organisms not abun- 

 dant in, 344. 

 Dyeing of double cyanide gauze. See Gauze. 



Eczema : use of boracic acid in, 228. 



Edinburgh : superior to London in respect of clinical 



surgical teaching, 45 1 ; personal explanation 



on the subject, 451, 452. 

 Edinburgh Royal Infirmary : no case of pyaemia 



or hospital gangrene in author's wards in nine 



months (1870), 159. 

 two cases of erysipelas in, 159. 

 author's wards free from habiUty to hospital 



diseases, 160. 



Edinburgh Royal Infirmary (continued) : 

 effects of antiseptic system on salubrity of 



author's wards, 253. 

 one case of pyaemia (spurious) after removal of 



mamma, 254. 

 no case of hospital gangrene in six years, 254. 

 erysipelas rare as a rule, but one epidemic of, 254. 

 number of author's operations larger in propor- 

 tion to beds than Syme's, 255. 

 tetanus niuch less frequent in, since introduction of 



antiseptic system, 255. 

 Effusions, serous. See Serous. 

 Effusions, synovial. See Synovial. 

 Ehrlich : defensive effects of poisons derived from 



vegetable kingdom, 510. 

 Elbow, caries of. See Caries. 

 Elbow, injury to : use of Rontgen rays in (Howard 



Marsh), 490. 

 Elbow-joint, compound fracture into : treated 

 antiseptically, 140, 155. 

 firmly united in five weeks, 155. 

 Elbow-joint : amputation of, 399, 

 Emphvsema : caused by simple fracture of ribs, 60. 

 Emphysema of hmb : as a comphcation of com- 

 pound fracture, 29 : prevention of decom- 

 position in this condition, 29. 

 Emplastra : as vehicles for carbolic acid, objection- 

 able on account of adhesiveness, 71. 

 Emplastrum plumbi : with beeswax, as veliicle for 

 carbolic acid, 71. 

 method of preparation, 71 (footnote). 

 Empyema, opening of pleura in : untrust worthi- 

 ness of spray, 336; but results not made worse 

 by false confidence in spray, T,T;y. 

 Entspanniings-Nahte (stitches of relaxation;, 241. 

 Epidermis : special attraction of carbolic acid for, 



368; experiment showing this, 370, 371. 

 Epithelial cancer. See Cancer. 



Equivocal generation : and germ theory of putre- 

 faction, 57. 

 See also Spontaneous. 

 Erichsen, J. E. : author house-surgeon under, 515. 

 amputation of arm for hospital gangrene, 5 1 6, 5 1 7. 

 Erysipelas : no case in author's wards in Glasgow- 

 Royal Infirmary, after adoption of antiseptic 

 treatment, 45. 

 in ' New Surgical Hospital ' in Glasgow Royal 



Infirmary, 123, 

 only one case originating in author's wards in 

 antiseptic period, 133 ; recurrent attacks of, in 

 this case seemed to show connecting Unk 

 between traumatic and idiopathic disease, 133 

 (footnote). 

 may occur in wounds from which all fermenta- 

 tive agency has been excluded, 241 (footnote). 

 epidemic of, in Edinburgh, along with outbreak 



of smallpox, 241 (footnote), 255. 

 former prevalence of, in Munich General Hospital. 

 248 ; very rare and mild since introduction of 

 antiseptic system in, 248, 500. 

 extremely rare in Volkmann's ciiniqiie at Halle, 



since introduction of antiseptic system, 250. 

 rare and mild in Berlin Charite Hospital since 



introduction of antiseptic system, 252. 

 of a mild character in Magdeburg Surgical 

 Hospital since introduction of antiseptic 

 system, 252. 

 disappearance of, after introduction of antiseptic 

 s^/stem, 341. 



