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sublimate (Langenbuch, Kitasato). It can be used to disinfect the 
hands, the operative field, the instruments, and. the material for 
dressings. er 
Pure tincture of iodine may take the place of strong antiseptic 
solutions for the disinfection of suppurative wounds. 
Chloral, in solution of 1 per cent, is only used for antisepsis of 
the mouth or of the rectum. 
Mitrate of silver, in strong (1 in 50-100) or weak solution (1 in 
1000), is used successfully to obtain the disinfection of some in- 
flamed mucous membranes. 
Boric acid, in concentrated solution (3-4 in 100) is far from pos- 
sessing the antiseptic properties attributed to it by Lister. About 
five times less active than phenic acid and a hundred times less than 
corrosive sublimate, it is used only in the antisepsis of the mucous 
membranes (eye, nasal and buccal cavities, ear, rectum, vagina and 
bladder). 
Naphthol, in solution 1 in 1000, is also a weak antiseptic. , 
Naphthaline, which has the same properties as naphthol, exerts an 
irritating action upon the tissues, and stimulates the granulation of 
wounds. 
Camphorated naphthol is a light yellow or brownish yellow syrupy 
product, prepared by triturating one part of naphthol with two of 
camphor. Camphorated salol, a whitish liquid, is obtained by warm- 
ing together equal parts of salol and pulverized camphor. Camphor- 
ated thymol, an almost limpid liquid, is prepared by triturating one 
‘part of thymol with two of camphor. These three products are 
utilized in the treatment of suppurating wounds. 
Boiled salt water (6 or 7 grammes of salt to each litre of water) is 
excellent for peritoneal irrigation in operations made on the abdomi- 
nal cavity (Kocher, Tavel). 
We must also mention éhymol, Lysol, solutol, salveol, dermatol, chlo- 
ral, chlorine water, sanitas, several essences, microcidine, alcohol, tan- 
nic acid, salicylic acid, and sub-nitrate of bismuth. These last three 
are used in thin layers, or blown upon the wounds. 
The number of antiseptics is increasing every day, but the latest 
offer no real superiority over those used in the beginning. Carbolic 
acid, corrosive sublimate, chloride of zinc, and iodoform, equal all 
the others. 
INSTRUMENTS—DRESSING MATERIAL. 
Instruments entirely of metal, without useless grooving, and as 
simple as possible, are used in preference to all others, Compli- 
cated instruments, or those invented for the execution of special 
operations, are more useful in the show cases of the instrument 
