ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS OF A MODERN ANTISEPTIC. ’.^01 
The requirement of the modern medical man for an anti¬ 
septic is not supplied, as we have seen, in any of the agents 
above mentioned. My opinion is, that we have in hydrozone 
the strongest antiseptic known to the medical profession, and it 
is now employed extensively. It is three times the atrength of 
peroxide of hydogen, U. S. P. officinal, and it is in no sense an 
irritant or a poison. It can be 'taken internally, as in cases of 
gastric catarrh and dyspepsia, causing fermentation, and as an 
intestinal antiseptic, without the slightest danger of producing 
poisonous results, or without the least danger of producing irri¬ 
tation. One of the greatest sources of benefit which we derive 
from this agent is the antiseptic effect which it produces in 
throat diseases. Hydrozone diluted half and half with water is 
the best remedy for tonsillitis. This sprayed against the tonsils 
when an attack is in its incipiency will in every case abort it. 
It should be sprayed thoroughly against the tonsils every fifteen 
minutes or half an hour until the pain and difficulty of swallow¬ 
ing has been dissipated. But this need not be continued longer 
than four hours with this frequency. After that every two 
hours will suffice, and generally not more that six or eigtli 
hours are necessary to effect a cure of tonsillitis. But the best 
effects of hydrozone will be seen in diphtheria. Here its em¬ 
ployment will bring us good results by rendering the parts anti¬ 
septic and limiting the affection. It is claimed by the best ob¬ 
servers that if the nose is sprayed in attacks of diphtheria we 
will have no false membrane in the nose. 
But this is not all. As an injection in the strength given 
above, it gives the best results in leucorrhea and gonorrhea in 
females. It is above all remedies for the cleansing out of ab¬ 
scess cavities. It will never cease to bubble as long as there is 
any pus in the cavity. In nasal catarrh, in ozena and all in¬ 
flammation of the mucous membranes its action is that of a 
most powerful antiseptic. In other words, it begets absolute 
cleanliness, destroying all pathogenic germs, and renders in the 
diseased structure an absolutely healthy condition. 
No remedy equals it in carbuncles. Here it destroys the pus 
and core, and causes the diseased structure to take on a healthy 
action. 
We may, therefore, not hesitate to claim that this antiseptic 
meets the demands of the physician and surgeon more nearly 
than any other agent of its class at their disposal. 
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