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the instruments were disinfected, and the space of 
operation washed with a two per cent, aqueous 
eucalyptus solution ; after the emptying of the 
glands, a gauze bandage moistened with euca- 
lyptus oil, was applied under coyer of gutta-percha 
paper ; the blood secreting under the bandage was, 
after two days, still undecomposed, the scanty pus 
remained odorless, and the rather ample wound 
healed in eight days, without causing eczema, to 
which the patient was otherwise subject, 
2, In treating genu valgum of a child of four 
years : cuneiform excision of the tibia under thy- 
mol spray ; bandage with eucalyptus oil ; no fever ; 
not a drop of pus ; healing of the wound per 
primam intentionem, so that ten days after the 
operation, only a line of granulation was extant, 
corresponding to the length of the removed cutis. 
8. Elbow resection in a child twenty months 
old, under thymol spray ; washing out of the 
wound with an eight per cent, lotion of chloride of 
zinc ; bandage with thymol gauze ; odor, after the 
second application, very foetid and profuse ; after 
rinsing with a one per cent, solution of hyperman- 
ganate of potassium, application of wet eucalyptus 
bandage ; after the first application, no more bad- 
smelling pus ; complete and rapid healing. 
4. Cleavage of a periarticular abscess of the 
knee ; wet eucalyptus bandage ; progress very 
favorable ; for preparing the gauze bandage, Pro- 
lessor Siegen uses three-parts eucalyptus oil, dis- 
