Dakin and Dunham’s Handbook of Antiseptics in their advertising pamphlet.
Iodized Lime, Menthol, and Yerba Santa are too well known as expectorants and antiseptics to require more than passing mention.
Many practitioners lose sight of the essential difference between antiseptics and disinfectants and employ antisepticsin cases in which only a disinfectant action would be of value.
Ingenious methods for determining the influence in vivo of antiseptics on the activities of leucocytes have been worked out by Col.
Bond with the strength of antiseptics commonly used in surgery, it has been found that Chlorine antiseptics and mercury salts have little effect on phagocytosis in comparison with other germicides.
In such, however, the advertiser is not far from right--since vaccine therapy has proven absolutely worthless we must fall back onantiseptics in acute urethritis when there are no objections to such treatment .
In addition to their disinfecting action, the Chlorine antiseptics are strong oxidizing agents and deodorants and moreover possess in high degree the property of decomposing toxins.
An important method of judging of the injurious action of antiseptics is to investigate the condition of the leucocytes in wounds recently treated with the substance under consideration.
The Council has considered the question of exempting simple laxatives from the restrictions of Rules 3 and 4 as it has exempted antiseptics and nonmedicinal foods.
An important method of judging the injurious action of antisepticsis to investigate their effects on the leucocytes.
It incorporates a sufficient quantity of mild antiseptics (of the Thymol class) .
Strong antiseptics and astringents must be avoided.
But all antiseptics have a slight irritant action which is disagreeable if there be an intact mucosa, although they may be more helpful in certain cases of ulceration or intranasal sepsis.
Of the dry antiseptics iodoform is constantly used in septic or tuberculous wounds, and it appears to have an inhibitory action on Bacillus tuberculosis.
Their standardization has been effected in many instances, and a water solution of carbolic acid of a certain fixed strength is now taken as the standard with which other antiseptics are compared.
In the absence of these natural antiseptics fermentation takes place.
Devitalised and contaminated tissue is removed with the knife or scissors and the wound purified with antiseptics of the chlorine group or with hydrogen peroxide.
Should an ulcer form in spite of these precautions, the mildest antiseptics must be employed for bathing and dressing it, and as far as possible all dressings should be dry.
Unlike carbolic acid and other antiseptics it is said to stimulate the serum instead of impairing its activity.
And if these failed to save the princely patient he was embalmed in aromatics or, as we now call them, antiseptics of the benzene series.
One of the most valuable of the aniline antiseptics employed by Ehrlich is flavine or, if the reader prefers to call it by its full name, diaminomethylacridinium chloride.
Wash with one of the above mentioned antiseptics twice daily until thoroughly healed.
Where the intestinal canal is fairly well emptied and its contents fluid, I should be inclined to rely upon intestinal antiseptics to hold in check harmful bacterial growth.
Locally, curettage and the application of suitableantiseptics are indicated.
Their method was to discard the use of antiseptics and to depend upon absolutely clean instruments, dressings and hands.
The mortality of childbirth has been reduced to about one-fifth of what it was by the introduction of antiseptics and anesthetics.
Fortunately it dies at once on drying, and is easily destroyed by the weaker antiseptics provided it has not gained a foothold on favorable ground.
Antiseptics Antiseptics are substances used to correct putrefaction, such as bark, camphor, charcoal, vinegar, and creosote.
The mucous membranes of the nose are now swabbed and sprayed with antiseptics and astringents, or 'burned' by cauterizers, electricity, etc.
Instead of purifying it, the antiseptics and germ killers would only add to the filth in the house.
Certain combinations of these elements are among the most powerful antiseptics and germicides.
Sulphur and mercury may drive back the skin eruptions, antipyretics and antiseptics may suppress fever and catarrh.
Excessive cold is as suppressive in its effects upon the organism as are poisonous antisepticsor antifever medicines.
All such preparations contain poisons or at any rate strong antiseptics and germcides.
Frequently these gather in the parts that have been weakened and irritated by the antiseptics and by the surgeon's knife, and set up new inflammations, ulcerations and only too often malignant tumors.
As a professor of surgery he first applied antiseptics in the operating room.
By means of the use of carbolic acid or other antiseptics on the surface of wounds, on instruments, and on the hands and clothing of the operating surgeons, disease germs were prevented from taking a foothold in the wounds.
If, then, the soil is heated artificially or treated with antiseptics so as to kill the protozoa, the bacteria which escape multiply so rapidly as to make the land much richer than before.
I am not sure that we can give a satisfactory reason for this, but it is certain that all these substances act as antiseptics by destroying the living organisms which are the cause of putrefaction.
There are many other substances which act like carbolic acid, and they are known by the common name of antiseptics or antiseptic agents.
People, then, had not been educated to the necessity of proper care of the body and knew scarcely anything of disease germs, antisepticsor sanitation.
What advances have been made in the knowledge of antiseptics and preventative medicine, and what great strides in surgery and the treatment of wounds!
Intestinal antiseptics are useful in some instances.
The treatment consists in removing the tartar from the teeth, applying strong antiseptics to the groove between the teeth and the gums, and employing mouth-washes and dentifrices.
Owing to the general condition of the patient, it is usually impossible to employ nasal douching or mouth washes, but spraying the cavities with peroxide of hydrogen or other antiseptics may be employed with benefit.
If carbolic acid or other liquid antiseptics be used the amount by volume should be equal to about five per cent.
After a wound begins to suppurate it does little good to put antiseptics into it, as they cause considerable irritation, and under no circumstances do they put an end to the pus formation.
Vaporizing antisepticsin the sick room has proved beneficial.
It is not essential to use chemical agents or antiseptics to rid wounds of germs and so secure uninterrupted healing.
Some light is thrown on these interesting problems by the effect of antiseptics on fermentation by yeast-cells and by yeast-juice.
The Effect of Antiseptics on the Fermentation of Sugars by Yeast-Juice.
All antiseptics are not equally destructive, and some germs are more susceptible to one antiseptic than to another.
On aseptic wounds use only those antiseptics that do not irritate the tissue.
Intestinal antiseptics have been resorted to, and the results are encouraging but not altogether satisfactory.
The most tense or dependent parts of the swelling in sheath or penis, or beneath the belly, should be pricked at intervals of 3 or 4 inches to a depth of half an inch, and antiseptics freely applied to the surface.
The same agents may be used on a gland threatened with gangrene, but its prompt removal by castration is to be preferred, antiseptics being applied freely to the resulting cavity.
Wash out the wound thoroughly with antiseptics and then apply a caustic, such as silver nitrate, or burn with a hot instrument.
It has been learned, also, that many forms of skin disease are parasitic, and that these are only successfully treated by the employment of antiseptics externally.
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