SUMMARY AND REVIEW. 
Responsibility recognized by most surgeons as 
too great to be trifled with. 
The nurse’s responsibility should be ever up¬ 
permost in her thoughts. 
Sterilization. Disinfection. Antiseptics. Ger¬ 
micides. Deodorants. 
Conditions which may lessen the power of dis¬ 
infectants. 
Heat as a germicide. Intermittent steriliza¬ 
tion. 
Aseptic surgery. The precautions necessary to 
prevent infection from reaching healthy tissues. 
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW-CHAPTER VI. 
I. —What germs are most commonly met with 
in surgery? What cases are they most likely to 
attack ? 
II. —What germ do physicians most fear in a 
certain class of accidental wounds? 
III. —Define sepsis, asepsis, antisepsis. What 
germ is said to be responsible for the disease 
sepsis ? How does it gain an entrance to the hu¬ 
man structure? Is it easily overcome? Describe 
the symptoms of sepsis. Seat of invasion in 
sepsis. 
IV. —Describe in detail the work of the nurse 
in guarding sources of infection before, during 
and after operations and in obstetrics. 
VII. —Define sterilization and disinfection. 
Antiseptics. Germicides. Deodorants. Are germi¬ 
cides and disinfectants interchangeable terms? 
VIII. —Give an accurate explanation of the 
conditions modifying the power of disinfectants. 
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