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carried out in penetrating wounds of the thorax, of the abdomen, 
articulations, tendinous sheaths, tendinous lesions, or of the carti- 
lages or bones. What we must expect of it is to protect our patients, 
wounded or operated upon, against serious infectious complications 
of wounds; but the unfavorable conditions under which we ordi- 
narily perform the operations, and the restlessness of most animals, 
render uncertain the cicatrization by first intention of wounds of 
operations. 
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Fig. 33—Lucas—Championniere’s atomizer.—2, boiler ; 7, spirit lamp; D, vase containing the anti-- 
septic liquid. 
And although it be not necessary to make use of asepsis and anti- 
sepsis as strictly in the country as in hospital centers, wherever one- 
uses the bistoury they must hot be entirely ignored, as in such 
cases the omission would be the more blameworthy the better the- 
serious possible consequences are known. Everywhere to-day, as 
in days gone by, when we commit that error, the small incision in 
the skin is a door open to infection and to death. If we cannot com- 
ply with all the exigencies of antisepsis, at least we must observe its 
great rules—operate with cleanliness, and do not injure the patients. 
That is the first precept of the art: Primo non nocere. 
