ANTISEPTIC MODE OF TREATING WOUNDS. 69 
As to the incidents in the wound also as to whether a change 
of bandage has to follow, the symptoms mentioned in the dry 
occlusive bandage (with exception of the saturation of the 
bandage), give us the desired information. 
(3) In human wounds, which are not treated at all, we fre- 
quently see a healing take place without any pus or abnor- 
mality in the healing process. By inquiring into the reasons. 
and what takes place in the healings of these wounds we find 
that nature, by certain processes, is able to frustrate such 
wound diseases which are due to infection. We notice that 
such wounds, on account of the drying up of the exudations, 
form a dry scab under which healing takes place, just the same 
as we notice by adopting the bandaging methods previously 
described. Healing under a dry scab is also possible in 
our domestic animals, but less so than in the human, be- 
cause of the work they do as well as on account of the greater 
danger of infection and its consequences. Notwithstanding 
these unfavorable conditions, healing under the dry scab is 
possible in our domestic animals under certain circumstances. 
As it is impossible for us to put on a bandage on many 
wounds of the body, the question arises whether this natural 
process of the healing under the dry scab may not be arti- 
ficially imitated. After many experimerts in this direction, T 
obtained a result not to be undervalued, as I succeeded, with 
but few excepticns, in all wounds where no violent or forcible 
motion takes place or any specially profuse exudation is pres- 
ent, that is, in wounds not located around or on the joints, 
by spraying iodoform sugar or iodoform tannin on the wound 
surface to produce a dry scab which is sufficient to pro- 
tect.the wound against infection. Considering what was said 
above in regard to the life conditions of micro organisms, the 
effect of this method explains itself. On account of the exu- 
dations having been reduced to nearly nothing, one of the 
most necessary stipulations for the growth of microbes, name- 
ly, the moisture, is lacking. Furthermore, the little exudation 
which exists turns, on account of the sugar present, into-a 
concentrated sugar solution, which latter also does not form 
