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bone having been removed, treatment having been by a daily 

 application of gauze wet with a solution of 2 per cent, chinosol 

 and 0.6 per cent, sodium chloride for two hours; the healing of a 

 pelvic fistula 6 to 8 inches in length, by injections, at first daily 

 for one month with a solution of 2 per cent, chinosol and 5 per 

 cent, sodium chloride, with which treatment the fistula became re- 

 duced to 2% inches in length, later having been completely closed 

 with the use of the tincture of chinosol; the cicatrization of a deep 

 wound entirely encompassing the anus, the result of the separa- 

 tion of a slough, with high retraction of the anus above the skin 

 surfaces of the buttocks, so that in 3^ weeks time the anus was 

 pulled down and united even with the surrounding skin, treatment 

 having been by the daily application of gauze wet with a solution 

 of 2 per cent, chinosol and 2 per cent, sodium chloride for about 

 3^2 hour; the complete removal of a deep slough filling the base of 

 a large carbuncle of the neck, which had been incised, with the 

 adhesion of the undermined skin edges almost everywhere to the 

 surface of the ulcer underlying them, by the fourteenth day, using 

 a solution of 2 per cent, chinosol and 0.85 per cent, sodium chloride. 



A chinosol ointment and a tincture of chinosol have important 

 uses. The ointment (By chinosol grains vi, sodium chloride grains 

 ii, lanolin and vaseline aa Sss) rubbed in for 4 or 5 minutes once 

 in 2 or 3 hours, has proved a pretty reliable agent with which to 

 abort beginning hair-follicle infections. The tincture chinosol 

 2 per cent, and sodium chloride grains i ss to the ounce in 80 per 

 cent, alcohol) applied once a day to the skin around a furuncle, 

 after having removed the grease with a fat-solvent, will prevent 

 infection of neighboring hair follicles. 



The technic is simple, application of the chinosol-salt aqueous 

 solution in suppurating and granulating wounds which are ac- 

 cessible, being made by means of gauze which, when the wounds are 

 discharging, is left in place between daily dressings, but when the 

 wounds begin to granulate healthily with little discharge, should 

 be removed in two or three hours following the dressing, to permit 

 coll apse of the wounds. The solutions used in this class of wounds 

 contain 2 per cent, of chinosol with either 0.85 per cent, or 5 per 

 cent, of sodium chloride. The combination of this strength of 

 chinosol with the hypertonic salt probably promotes cicatrization 



