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generally, and takes up nine times its own weight of water. For 
dressing wounds, Dr. Neuberg now uses two bags of gauze (one 
double the other in size) wrung out in carbolic solution and filled 
with mould, the mould in the smaller bag containing two and a 
half per cent, of iodoform, that in the larger saturated with five 
per cent, carbolic solution. The smaller bag is placed on the 
wound directly after disinfection of the latter with carbolic solu¬ 
tion, zinc chloride, or iodoform, and the larger bag is placed 
above, the whole being kept in place by a gauze bandage. The 
dressing remains on mostly a fortnight or more. Excellent re¬ 
sults have been thus obtained. The advantages claimed for the 
method are these : 1. A given quantity of the mould takes up 
more fluid than jute, gauze, or cotton wool. If it be slightly 
moistened its absorbent power is increased. 2. It has great power 
of absorbing products of decomposition of organic substances, and 
hence prevents its occurrence. 3. The moistened mould is a 
very soft, but still elastic substance, and so is easily placed in the 
required position in the bags before applying them to the ine¬ 
qualities of the body. 4. It is the cheapest of known antiseptic 
dressings, one pennyworth being sufficient for one dressing, and 
still less if the preparation with an antiseptic be left out. 5. It 
makes a very suitable pad for all purposes when enclosed in 
gauze.— Veterinary Journal. 
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