Bayer, however, again prefers a dressing of the wound, and especially the moistening of the line of sutures with the 1 in 5 solution of iodoform in ether.
Bayer prefers a 1 in 5 solution of iodoform in ether.
Iodoform, iodoformand boracic acid, or chinosol, is freely dusted over the wound and for some distance around it.
The parts are then washed in a perchloride of mercury solution, covered with a mixture of powdered iodoform and boracic acid, over which a pledget of carbolized tow is placed, and then a bandage over the whole.
The clot remaining from the hæmorrhage after the operation was removed, the wound was irrigated with a hot solution of sublimate, and then dusted with iodoform and covered with a dressing of iodoform gauze and absorbent wool.
I then removed a great portion of the heel and the lateral cartilage, which was split; placed the portion of hoof again on the laminæ, smothered the wound with iodoform pulv.
Next, either iodoform or chinosol in the powder should be dusted over the whole surface, including again both inner and outer faces of the reverted skin-flaps.
Then change it, and should the discharge be little, do not disturb it, but renew the iodoform and cotton dressing, leaving it on for another week.
This cavity, left by the extirpation of the cartilage, must be thoroughly dressed with iodoform or chinosol, or with Bayer's iodoform in ether.
If the iodoform is offensive to some people, you may use the vaselin alone, although the iodoform is known to be one of the best healing remedies that can be obtained.
After this pack the womb with ten per cent iodoform gauze, which may be bought in this strength.
The womb should be washed out with a hot salt solution, one teaspoonful of salt to one pint of water, and then packed with ten per cent iodoform gauze.
Sponge with clean soft cloths, with a solution of boric acid or one per cent solution of carbolic acid and the cavity packed with iodoform gauze, or iodoform, or aristol ointment, over which apply a layer of borated cotton.
If the protruded pile is inflamed and hard to push back, the following is good and recommended highly:-- Chloretone 1 dram Iodoform 1 dram Gum Camphor 1 dram Petrolatum 1 ounce Mix and use as a salve.
If the cervix is hard and the canal is not dilated, especially if the bleeding is free, the vagina should be packed full at once, if possible, with iodoform gauze.
The most delicate test for alcohol is, however, the iodoform test fully described in "Foods," p.
But the odor of the drugs, iodoform and phenic acid, brought me back to a sense of reality.
The smell of iodoform and Virginian tobacco would fade from the house; there would be no beds along the drawing-room walls, and no temperature charts hanging above the beds.
Still it was very good to be quit of the smell of iodoform and the sight of bandages.
USES: There appears to be no advantage in applying iodoform in collodion.
The smoke of their cigars was mingled with the stench of iodoform and strong liniments.
He was proud of the stench of iodoform that he shed as he walked, and he talked of the attention they had shown him in that town, which he considered the finest in Spain.
Simple evacuation of the abscess by a hollow needle may suffice, or bismuth or iodoform may be introduced after withdrawal of the contents.
When these and other non-operative measures fail, and the whole track of the sinus is accessible, it should be laid open, scraped, and packed with bismuth or iodoform gauze until it heals from the bottom.
After the packing is removed, iodoform powder is rubbed into the raw surface.
After hæmorrhage has been arrested, iodoform and bismuth paste is rubbed into the raw surface, and the wound closed.
Iodoform suspended in glycerin may be employed in a similar manner.
In the common flexor sheath of the palm, an attempt may be made to cure the condition by removing the contents through a small incision and filling the cavity with iodoform glycerine, followed by the use of Bier's bandage.
To encourage healing from the bottom the cavity should be packed with bismuth or iodoform gauze.
They should be washed with eusol, and dusted with a mixture of one part iodoform and two parts boracic or salicylic acid, or, when the odour of iodoform is objected to, of equal parts of boracic acid and carbonate of zinc.
On account of its power of neutralising toxins, iodoform is useful in these cases, and is best employed by packing the wound with iodoform gauze, and treating it by the open method, if this is possible.
If these measures fail or are impracticable, it may be necessary to make one or more free incisions, and to insert drainage-tubes, portions of rubber dam, or iodoform worsted.
When the chancre is within the meatus, iodoform bougies are inserted into the urethra, and the urine should be rendered bland by drinking large quantities of fluid.
This consists in packing the wound with iodoform or bismuth gauze, which is left in position as long as it adheres to the raw surface.
After the fluid contents of the joint are withdrawn, the iodoform is injected; and this may require to be repeated in a month or six weeks.
This treatment consisted in dressing the cord with iodoform powder and antiseptic wool, the breast-feeding of the baby from the first, and the administration of one-grain doses of potassium bromid at short intervals.
In the extensive use of iodoformas a dressing instances of untoward effects, and even fatal ones, have been noticed, the majority of them being due to careless and injudicious application.
About this stage of the operation an unfortunate accident happened--the iodoform tampon, which protected the exposed pleural cavity, was drawn into this cavity during a deep inspiration, and could not be found.
Then I wound the iodoform gauze round it, and over that I put the cambric, the bits of underclothing, and a layer of moss.
On my mountain excursions I always took with me a box containing iodoform gauze and cambric; and now these things were more than welcome.
Carbolized vaseline or iodoform ointment will be found well suited to this work.
The after-treatment consists in tamponing the wound with pledgets of iodoform gauze or a mixture of iodoform 1 part and glycerin 4 parts.
Antiseptic injections of the teats and udder are often useful, and iodoform in water has been especially recommended.
Worms in the eyes and lacrimal ducts may cause inflammation, in which case the eyes may be syringed with an antiseptic, such as a weak solution of coal-tar stock dip, and iodoform ointment applied if the condition is severe.
Iodoform suppositories greatly stimulate the absorption of the inflammatory exudation; one of these should be introduced into the vaginal canal each day.
Tincture of iodine can be applied to the groins every second day, or iodoform suppositories introduced into the vagina.
Peters[39] recommends the use of iodoform suppositories.
For the latter purpose insufflations of iodoform and morphine are to be recommended, two or three grains of the former with one-fourth to one-half grain of the latter, once a day or oftener.
A number of other substances {210} produce the iodoform reaction, but only one of these, lactic acid, is likely to be met in urine.
Iodoform locally is of benefit, inasmuch as it relieves pain and reduces collateral inflammation, but it is powerless to arrest the onward march of the ulcerative process.
Iodoform crystals obtained in several tests for acetone by Gunning's method (X about 600).
The iodoform can be recognized by its odor, especially upon heating (there is danger of explosion if the mixture be heated before the black cloud disappears), or by detection of the crystals microscopically.
One would naturally suppose that the preparation to be sold in this country contains iodoform in an ether-oil solution while the one used by Bernheim and Dieupart[44] was stated to contain an ethereal solution of “iodized peptone.
Creosote and tar oils have caused an odour somewhat resembling that of iodoform and industrial wastes have also produced complaints.
On the fourth day two new iodoform bacilli were introduced.
Nasal ulcers may be treated by insufflation of iodoform and injections of creasote, carbolic acid, nitrate of silver, or permanganate of potash solutions.
Ointments of boracic acid, zinc, or iodoform are likewise useful when introduced through the nostril.
No symptoms of poisoning from the iodoform have been observed.
In their introduction the half-hand (left) should be passed to the cervix; the iodoform bacillus should be seized by a pair of polypus forceps and pushed into the cervical canal.
If, after a time, the granulations become flabby, Peruvian balsam or iodoform should be introduced into the sac at each change of the dressing.
Free incisions are requisite for the liberation of pus, and all abscess cavities should be treated antiseptically and stuffed with iodoformor resorcin.
Iodoform or Iodoformogen: dissolved in collodion, or as ointment to neck and head; along with small doses of calomel as enemata.
Eucalyptol: with iodoform and adeps lanae in dry eczema.
Iodoform or Iodoformogen: as ointment or suppository.
Excision, or scraping gland, and packing with iodoform gauze.
Iodoform or Iodoformogen: dressing for chancre and ulcers.
Iodoform or Iodoformogen: as local application, alone or mixed with tannic acid.
The sinus may be syringed out with warm saline solution, and temporarily packed with a long strip of iodoform gauze, while the operation is being completed.
My most recent results show a series of twenty-two complete laryngectomies with one death, that of a man of seventy, who died on the eleventh day of iodoform poisoning.
Death from shock or collapse, from hæmorrhage, from septic conditions of the wound, or from iodoform poisoning, is now rarely met with and can more easily be prevented.
The wound is treated in the following way:-- The cavity created by the removal of the uterus is filled in loosely with iodoform gauze, which extends to the vulva.
The condition of the mucous membrane may be improved by cleansing the sinus with iodoform emulsion, or plugging it for twelve or twenty-four hours with iodoform ribbon gauze.
They can usually be made to heal by the use of iodoform and scraping.
The post-nasal sponge is removed, the iodoform ribbon gauze is withdrawn through the nostril, and the patient is put back to bed with the affected side uppermost.
It is stuffed with iodoform gauze, which is changed daily, and the cavity is allowed to granulate up from the bottom.
The strips of iodoform gauze are removed through the vagina in from five to ten days successively.
In treating a fistula, remove any foreign body; lay the channel open, curet, touch with pure carbolic acid, and pack with iodoform gauze.
Many methods have been tried for the filling of these bone cavities with blood clot, iodoform and oil of sesame, but they have not been successful, because it is almost impossible to render such cavities absolutely aseptic.
Thymoliodide, or aristol, is a splendid antiseptic powder and enjoys the advantage over iodoform of being inodorous.
If, however, the pain and swelling due to effusion continue, and there is evidence of suppuration, the bursa should be freely opened and irrigated, and subsequently packed with sterilized oriodoform gauze.
Iodoform Powder+ is rapidly absorbed by the skin and fatal cases of iodoform poisoning have occurred from treating burns with it.
Iodoform is also used in ointment form and in suppositories.
Free incision, if possible, otherwise incision, cauterizing with pure carbolic acid, and packing with iodoform gauze.
Periodic curettments and cauterizations with silver nitrate are often of benefit, as are also the employment of dry iodoform gauze as a packing, together with the occasional use of various moist dressings.
Iodoform is also capable of producing a localized dermatitis, with great irritation, and must therefore be used with care on all delicate skins.
The action ofiodoform is not due directly to its ability to destroy germs but to its undergoing decomposition in the presence of moisture, liberating iodin and thus rendering inert ptomains that have resulted from the growth.
The odor of the iodoform may be disguised by the addition of a few drops of otto of roses.
After the operation for fistula in ano, the wound should be packed with iodoform gauze, which is left undisturbed for twenty-four hours.
After each application the part should be well smeared with an ointment of iodoform (thirty grains to the ounce).
Before putting on the sock, dress the sore with iodoform powder or zinc ointment.
Cazeneuve also observed that most metals which have any affinity for iodine will decompose iodoform in the presence of water, forming acetylene and an iodide of the metal.
The decomposition of the iodoform is hastened if the silver is mixed with finely divided copper, such as can be obtained by precipitating it from its sulphate by means of zinc.
I don’t know about that,” DuBois answered, “but I do remember now that there was a smell of iodoform whenever the man in brown opened the stateroom door.
Do you know why they used iodoformin the stateroom?
Didn’t they use iodoform in the private stateroom where the sick man was?
They used iodoformin the stateroom, and these papers were opened and examined there!
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