Operations upon the gastrointestinal tract have been so improved in the modern era of antisepsis that at the present day they are quite common.
Quite a tribute to the modern treatment by antisepsis is shown in the results of laminectomy.
Until comparatively recent years we have been quite confident in our assurance that antisepsis and asepsis were entirely modern developments of surgery.
The italics in the word modern are mine, but might well have been used by some early advocate of antisepsis or even by Lord Lister himself.
Of course, any such extensive surgical intervention even for serious affections would have been worse than useless under the septic conditions that would surely have prevailed if certain principles of antisepsis were not applied.
Such expressions of course could only have come from men who had succeeded in solving some of the problems of antisepsis that were solved once more in the generation preceding our own.
In pressing the necessity of caution and discrimination, I have not, however, intended to discourage the employment of intra-uterine antisepsis in cases where it is strictly indicated.
Complete antisepsis in the surgical sense is, of course, impracticable.
Adequate antisepsis has, however, been proved to result from the observance of a variety of precautions which have been the slow outcome of experience.
Immobilization of the parts and rigid antisepsis will generally yield good results as to life, though recovery with ankylosis is the rule.
Antisepsis and Asepsis (the latter almost infinitely the greatest invention in the history of therapeutics) will have pushed their way from surgery into medicine.
But antisepsis is already on the point of being superseded by the far more rational and scientific method of asepsis, or the exclusion from open wounds of all the germs which can set up inflammation and festering.
Alcohol was frequently used in many other conditions of a similar nature, and above all in the septic conditions so common in hospitals before the days of antisepsis and asepsis.
In many manufacturing establishments, in spite of progress with regard to sepsis and antisepsis and the diffusion of information as to first aid to the injured, it is still the custom to put spittle on wounds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "antisepsis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: decontamination; fumigation; hygiene; sanitation
