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INDEX TO VOLUME II 



Micrococci {continued) : 



case in which they caused suppuration, 104. 

 action of carbolic acid on, more uniform than that 

 of corrosive subhmate, 344. 

 Micrococci, sporeless : our surgical enemies, 351. 

 Micro-organisms : blood serum not so favourable 

 a soil for growth of, as once bclic\ed by author, 



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relation of, to wounds, difficulties in regard to 



explained by phagocyte theory, 334. 

 growth of, causes putrefaction and other fer- 

 mentative changes, 340. 

 effects of, on living body greatly influenced by 

 numbers. 342 ; this explains how attenuated 

 and subdivided bacteria in atmosphere are 

 disposed of by antiseptic action of blood and 

 li\ing tissues, 342. 

 importance of, in economy of Nature shown by 

 Pasteur, 494, 495. 



Microscope, achromatic : J.J. Lister's labours in 

 improvement of, 543. 



Microscope, compound : J. J. Lister's improve- 

 ments in, 515. 



Microscopes : improvements in, based on principles 

 introduced by J. J. Lister, 502. 



Military' hospitals : antiseptic treatment necessary 

 even in superficial granulating sores to main- 

 tain healthy atmosphere, 164. 



Milk, uncontaminated : addition of drops of water 

 to, causes bacteric development, 277. 

 affords pabulum for almost all varieties of micro- 

 organisms, 277. 



Miller (in Chemistry) : his statement that albuminate 

 of mercury is found as precipitate when solu- 

 tion of albumen is treated with corrosive subli- 

 mate, 299. 



Milne-Edwards : and Pasteur's experiments on 

 germs in air, 485. 



' Minikin gut.' See Catgut. 



Moreau the younger : first excised wrist for caries, 



417. 

 Morel : invention of tourniquet by (1674), 381. 

 Morton, T. : compound fracture of forearm treated 



\\-ith carbolic acid, 24. 

 compound fracture of femur treated with car- 

 bolic acid, 25. 

 Morton, W. T. G. : demonstration of anaesthetic 



property of sulphuric ether, 491. 

 Mould : on preserve as distinctly a vegetable as a 



cabbage, 483. 

 Munich General Hospital : effects of antiseptic 



treatment in, 248. 

 pyaemia and hospital gangrene banished, 248, 



500. 

 erysipelas rare and mild, 248, 500 

 Muscle, involuntary : fibre cells of, discovered by 



Kolliker, 529. 

 Muslin gauze. See Gauze. 



NaegeU (Munich) : bacteria cannot develop in con- 

 centrated organic solutions, 290 (footnote). 

 showed that more concentrated an organic 

 solution the less easily bacteria develop in it, 



355- 

 Naevi : injection of perchloride of iron or tannin 



produces subcutaneous sloughs which arc 



absorbed with suppuration, 93. 

 Necrosis : acute case of, treated on antiseptic 



system, 65. 



Nerve, sympathetic, in neck : section of, causing 



turgescence of vessels of ear, 529. 

 galvanic stimulation of distal end causes pallor, 



529. 

 Nervous system : inflammation produced through, 



147- 



Nitric acid : in treatment of hospital gangrene, 17. 



Nitrous oxide gas : anaesthetic properties of, dis- 

 covered by Humphry Davy, 491. 

 its use in short operations and tooth extractions, 

 492. 



Nussbaum, v. : antiseptic treatment introduced by, 

 into Munich General Hospital, 248, 500. 

 his testimony as to revolution in salubrity of 

 hospital brought by antiseptic treatment, 249 

 (footnote). 



Oakum : as antiseptic dressing, 168. 



contains no carbolic acid, but creosote and 



probably other antiseptic hydrocarbons, 168. 

 advantages of, over lac plaster, 168. 

 applied to sore thoroughly washed with anti- 

 septic lotion and covered with protective 

 nearly approaches ideal dressing (1871), 168. 

 disagreeable to many owing to tarry smell, 169. 

 what it is, 169. 



modified form of, made by steeping muslin gauze 

 in carbolic acid, resin, and parafhn melted 

 together, 169 (aiid footnote). 

 Oedema : ' doughy ' swelling of, caused by plasma 

 forced through capillaries by venous obstruc- 

 tion, 533. 

 Oedema, serum of: is normal plasma, 539. 

 Ogston : micrococci in acute abscesses, 347, 501 ; 

 classified by him into streptococci and staphylo- 

 cocci, 501. 

 no organisms found in discharges of carbohzed 

 dressing if changed daily, 294. 

 Olecranon : compound fracture of, treated anti- 

 septically, 140, 151, 155; firmly united in five 

 weeks, 155. 

 Olecranon : cases of ununited fracture of, success- 

 fully treated by wiring, 453, 454, 455, 468, 469. 

 Omalgia : advantages of actual cautery in, ^y;^, 



374. 

 Onychia : ' amykos ' (boracic acid) successfully 



used in, 227. 

 Operation : seldom fatal since introduction of 

 antiseptic system (Saxtorph), 248. 

 conditions of : sponges, instruments, surgeon's 

 hands and patient's skin must be aseptic, 351. 

 entourage of seat of, must be protected by anti- 

 septic solution, 351. 

 when no chemical antiseptic at hand, 355. 

 boil sponges, silk ligatures, and instruments, 355. 

 cleanse hands and skin with soap and water, 355. 

 use silver wire, silkworm gut or horsehair, for 

 stitching, 355. 

 Opex'ations : importance of keeping instruments 



antiseptic in, 219. 

 Operations from time immemorial prohibited : 

 successfully performed under antiseptic sys- 

 tem, 341. 

 Operation wounds : use of carbolic acid in treat- 

 ment of, 44. 

 provision of condition making them on a par with 

 subcutaneous injuries, the ideal of surgery, 292. 

 Orbit : extravasation of blood into, causing 

 suppuration without external wound, 21. 



