Formalin, a watery solution of a gas known as formaldehyde, is a new disinfectant that recent experience has demonstrated to be very useful.
This substance is a good disinfectant as well as a deodorant, and if applied as a wash, in the proportion of four to six ounces of the powder to one gallon of water, it will destroy most forms of life.
The addition of this substance to soap, though imparting a very refreshing and pleasant odour, does not materially increase the disinfectant value of the soap.
If a refuse pail is used, it should be scalded frequently and a solution of carbolic acid, chloride of lime or other disinfectant used.
Borax is an effectual cleanser, disinfectant and bleacher.
If a contagious disease exists in a household, other means than the use of a disinfectant must be taken in order to prevent the spread of the contagion.
In case of an illness of a contagious or infectious nature, a solution of Platt's Chlorides or a similar disinfectant should be kept in all vessels containing or receiving discharges from the body.
No disinfectant can offer a safeguard if plumbing is defective, or other unsanitary conditions exist; in fact, disinfectants are often deprecated, since they afford a false sense of security.
When it is desirable to use a liquiddisinfectant Platt's Chlorides will be found a useful article, as will lysol and other marketed products.
The advantage of the latter is that no contamination is possible by the water itself, whereas in washing out the disinfectant the water, unless pure, contaminates the surface again.
Milk of lime is an admirable disinfectant in the sick room and generally in houses where infectious diseases have been.
A disinfectant is prepared in the same way, using copperas.
Platt, New York, is sold as a disinfectant and germicide.
No disinfectant or germicide of the phenol type will be accepted for New and Nonofficial Remedies whose phenol coefficient, determined according to the method of the Hygienic Laboratory, U.
Finally, the claim that Formamint is an almost perfect throat disinfectant was by no means confirmed, as a glance at the tables will show.
Then, again, part of the sulphuretted hydrogen, liberated in the stomach, is eliminated by the mouth and acts as an antiseptic and disinfectant of the mucous membranes of the throat and mouth.
The only available method of determining the germicidal value of a liquid disinfectant is to make a direct comparison of the substance in question with phenol under similar conditions.
Many practitioners lose sight of the essential difference between antiseptics and disinfectants and employ antiseptics in cases in which only a disinfectant action would be of value.
A disinfectant is not necessarily an antiseptic or a deodorant, nor are these last necessarily disinfectants.
The dangerous secondary swelling of the glands will often subside after a steady employment of disinfectantinjections for from twelve to twenty-four hours.
Then mild disinfectant injections into what has now become a cavity will be found satisfactory, particularly when meanwhile the general condition of the patient has been improved.
If this be commenced early, the original seat of the affection may be reached, and the disinfectant process will, as a rule, have good results.
For in regard to its efficiency it does not rank very high in comparison with a great many other articles, as may be seen from a table of the disinfectant properties of different chemicals published by Miquel in the Semaine Médicale.
I have myself employed as a disinfectant with success the solution of the chlorides sold under the name of Platt's chlorides.
Viborg, Hofacker, Renault), chlorine, and thedisinfectant chlorides and sulphites.
Used in strong solution as a disinfectant under the name of "Condy's green fluid.
Now, medical authorities and sanitarians are of opinion that the most potent disinfectant with which we are acquainted is sulphurous acid, a gas which has been used for ages, as a fumigator.
During very hot weather, or the prevalence of an infectious disease in a dwelling-house or in the neighbourhood of the house, some disinfectant should be added to the water that supplies the closet.
Used as an absorbent anddisinfectant to fetid ulcers and wounds.
To the water in the tanks attached to these latter, some disinfectantsubstance should from time to time be added; more particularly during hot weather.
Burnett's disinfectant fluid) and 1 quart of water may also be applied with advantage.
Being one of the most energetic oxidising agents known, it is not surprising that the claims of ozone as a disinfectant should have found many supporters.
It is considered advisable, therefore, to treat them by dipping into some disinfectant such as tar, or a mixture of tar and one of the common proprietary disinfectants.
If subsequently the sheets are hung for any length of time in a moist atmosphere, the protective effect of the disinfectant gradually vanishes and "rustiness" may be produced.
We have not yet encountered any case in which it was found necessary to treat the latex with an antiseptic or disinfectant substance for the prevention of "spot" disease.
The popular notions regarding sulphur as a disinfectant after diphtheria are erroneous.
Do not make the disinfectant stronger than directed here, or it will destroy the articles soaked in it, and for the same reason do not leave them in it longer than twenty-four hours.
Do not let the disinfectant enter the child's mouth or eyes.
Formalin is the best disinfectant for wall-paper unless the child has spat upon it--then use the bichloride.
Its aqueous solution is largely used as an antiseptic and disinfectant under the name of formalin.
Burning sulphur is well known as a gaseous disinfectant of rooms, bacteria being killed in air containing 1% of the gas.
Artificial atmospheres may be made for invalids by respirators which cover the mouth and nose, the air being drawn through tow or sponge, on which is sprinkled the disinfectant to be used.
The door of one stood ajar, and a sudden smell of disinfectant made him stop and look in.
The methods which have been relied upon in the past for the prevention of abortion and its eradication from a herd are:-- (1) Periodical spraying of the external genital organs and hind quarters withdisinfectant solutions.
Disinfection of the premises is another essential factor in the treatment of this disease, and undiluted Crude Carbolic Acid is a disinfectant that we can rely upon at all times.
The animals that succumb to the disease should be buried deeply and quicklime thrown upon them, also any blood stains upon the ground should have a strongdisinfectant thrown upon them.
A gooddisinfectant must be used to prevent the disease from spreading and I would recommend the use of undiluted Crude Carbolic Acid about the coops and poultry runs.
Lice~ Sprinkle Pratts Disinfectant on an old blanket and tie it around the animal for two or three hours.
Wash with one part Pratts Dip and Disinfectant and 50 parts water and apply Pratts Healing Ointment or Healing Powder three times a day.
Another excellent remedy is to wash out diseased portion of hoof with one part Pratts Disinfectant and 20 parts of water three times a day.
Soak the feet for eight or ten hours a day for two or three days in a 5% solution of Pratts Disinfectant and apply the Ointment.
Clean up and disinfect the quarters, using Pratts Disinfectant liberally.
Use Pratts Disinfectant freely and maintain health and vigor by regularly using Pratts Hog Tonic.
When recovered, sponge all over with one part Pratts Dip and Disinfectant to 20 parts water.
Clean stalls and disinfect with one part Pratts Dip and Disinfectant to 100 parts water.
Wash off with one part Pratts Dip and Disinfectant and 50 parts of water.
Disinfect entire place with one part Pratts Dip andDisinfectant to 75 parts of water.
An excellent preventive practice is to douche the vagina of all pregnant cows and to wash the tails and hind quarters of the entire herd with one part Pratts Dip and Disinfectant to 100 parts warm water.
Use Pratts Dip andDisinfectant freely about the premises.
Stand animals in a trough containing one part Pratts Dip and Disinfectant to 20 parts water.
In any event the cord of the foal should be washed in a disinfectant solution and tied at about 1-1/2 inches from the navel with a band or string which has previously been soaked in a disinfectant solution.
As a disinfectant the compound solution of cresol, carbolic acid, or chlorid of lime may be used, by mixing 6 ounces of any one of these chemicals with 1 gallon of water.
Anti-septic and disinfectant injections may then be used.
The best method of applying the disinfectant and the lime wash is by means of a strong spray pump, such as those used by orchardists.
After five days the parchmentlike dried stump may be cut off and the navel wound washed with a disinfectant solution and dusted with powder until healed.
Once the infection of the navel cord has set in, the cord should not be ligated but should be washed in a disinfectant solution and a veterinarian called for the subsequent treatment.
The disinfectant solution should be applied liberally to all parts of the stable, and sufficient lime may be added to the solution to make the disinfected area conspicious.
The stump should be washed daily with a disinfectant and either painted with iodin mixture or carbolic acid or dusted with some reliable antiseptic healing powder.
Accidents are liable to occur with chlorine gas from its extensive use as a disinfectant and also in its manufacture.
Chloride of zinc is the only constituent in the well-known "Burnett's disinfectant fluid.
Cracks in the stone floor let in migrating bands of red ants that no disinfectant would drive away.
It was a formaldehyde outfit, consisting simply of a can of the disinfectant with a bracket attached underneath to hold a small spirit lamp.
As it would take the disinfectant ten or twelve hours to do its work, they hastened to construct a camp, for it was growing dark.
In washing a dog start at the head with a good disinfectant soap and work backwards and downwards, for fleas make for the head when threatened with drowning and only in this way can these pests be gotten rid of.
Plenty of elbow grease, backed up with a good strong disinfectant and fresh air and sunlight, these are the secrets of a successful kennel.
I can quite understand that sorrow is the true disinfectant of souls, yet I am obliged to ask myself why the Creator has not invented a less atrocious way of purifying us?
The toilet-bowl should be scrubbed inside and out with the toilet-brush, and a disinfectant powder put in.
After sweeping the floor and dusting the doors, the bowls should be washed inside and out with the toilet-brush and a disinfectantput in.
