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tar and plaster, either as powder or as poultice, is of some use upon fetid 
used, unless some improved method of applying it can be devised. 
q VIL. The Boghead residue would be useful only in lack of coal-tar and 
plaster. While charcoal in porous envelopes does not mould itself to 
cavernous and sinuous wounds with sufficient readiness to come into 
general practice. 
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After citing the labors of various persons who have proposed methods 
St disinfection, the committee go on to say : “M, Corne, and the authors 
. a ‘ated above, occupied themselves only with the disinfection and the 
solidification of animal matter, having im view the preparation of ma- 
nures, * * # * Tt is M. Demeaux who appears first to have had 
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ted and extolled, by his neighbor. In addition, it is evi- 
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® inhabitants of certain southern countries often dress their wounds 
