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bandage, as MOSETIG recommended, did not become popu- 
lar; only the iodoform itself has maintained its place in sur- 
gery, and it will continue to be used, notwithstanding the 
newly appeared counter current which disclaims any anti- 
septic value for it. . 
Probably on account of these disclosures by MOSETIG, 
KOCHER abandoned his chloride of zinc method and ex- 
perimented with antiseptic powders, and selected the sub- 
nitrate of bismuth. A I per cent. watery emulsion (KOCHER 
always calls it mixture), is used for irrigating the wounds, while 
on a sutured wound the remedy is spread in the form of a thick 
pulp and the bandage is made out of crumpled gauze saturated 
with the bismuth mixture. - 
The bismuthum subnitricum also did not prove itself inno- 
cent, for KOCHER himself had a death to report as a conse- 
quence of bismuth poisoning, so that the bismuth treatment 
also did not spread further. With these the number of reme- 
dies recommended for the antiseptic treatment of wounds is 
by no means exhausted, but the remaining remedies belong en- 
tirely to the present antiseptic wound treatment, so that their 
discussion will follow in a later chapter. To those belong 
corrosive sublimate, as well as creolin and salol, introduced 
by BERGMANN and SCHEDE. For the same reason the 
usual bandaging materials, etc., will not be discussed, as far as 
the historical interest is concerned, mention of them having 
been made above. If we investigate how much benefit veter- 
inary science has gained from these acquisitions in the field 
of wound treatment, it must be acknowledged that the anti- 
septic treatment lias not as yet been in practice as much as 
should be expected, considering the eminent advantages which 
it offers. As has been mentioned above, it must be ac- 
knowledged that antisepsis, in the form practiced in the 
human, can only in a few cases be adopted in veterinary 
science, but LISTER’S direction can be followed in another 
mode. The oft repeated statement that the usual therapeutical 
methods of human practice cannot, in every instance, be 
adopted in veterinary science, is here also fully justified. The 
