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solution. It is practical to use heavy sack linen for such 
bandages, to prevent their being tread through. 
Where such bandaging is not practical, the operating field 
is to be thoroughly washed, eventually the hair immed. off, 
and afterwards irrigated with sublimate water. 
Unfortunately, it is not always possible to carry out this ef- 
fectual preparation of the operating field, hence there is noth- 
ing left for us but the disinfection, which was formerly de- 
scribed in all details. 
If I perform an operation with antiseptic precautions, and 
I do this in every instance, | supply myself before commenc- 
ing it with the following materials, provided I did not bring 
them along with me: 
(1) Five or ten litres of sublimate water. For this purpose I 
dissolve in one-half to one bucket of water (a well-washed 
horse pail will suffice) five or ten Angerer’s sublimate pastilles. 
Instead of the irrigator I use a clay pot with a nozzle, with the 
aid of which the wound can be conveniently washed. : 
(2) A washbowl with carbolic water (3 per cent.) to put in 
and disinfect the instruments. 
(3) a piece of soap. 
(4) a brush. 
(5) disinfected silk. 
(6) bandaging material. 
(7) iodoform powder. 
As stated before, all these above mentioned items cannot be 
carried along permanently, therefore we meet with cases 
where we have to be contented with the outfit described 
above, it being the one I always carry along. For dis- 
infecting instruments, sublimate water must then be sub- 
stituted, the disinfected silk is replaced by raw silk, which 1s 
saturated in sublimate water. As bandaging material we can, 
in case of necessity, use linen compresses, namely, small linen 
sacks filled with fine sand and saturated in sublimate water, 
while linen bands come in place of cambric and mull bandages. 
During a military drill of six weeks, in which I recently 
