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infecting chamber for fifteen minutes, the same, or but 

 a shghtly lower temperature, is reached in the center 

 of large bundles of clothes and bedding. 



Fig. 52. — Autoclave (horizontal form). 



Pry Heat. — ^When the rapid sterilization of small 

 instruments, such as hypodermic needles, glass rods, 



