Sterilization of food and all apparatus by the boiling temperature, 212 deg.
Sterilization by continued heat which destroys parasites and bacteria.
Some observations in thremmatology suggesting important questions concerning the practical effectiveness of sterilization as a eugenic measure.
History of legislation in the United States authorising or requiring the sterilization of certain classes of criminals, defectives and degenerates who are under the control of the State in institutions.
State of public opinion regarding sterilization in the United States at the present time.
Reports of sterilization of females, both of normal and abnormal mentality, with a number of typical cases showing after-effects.
If there is a risk of escape or if liberty is conceded--undoubtedly sterilization to prevent perpetuation of the defect.
And inasmuch as it advocates practical rules and seeks to check the propagation of the unfit, by isolation or sterilization (voluntary or enforced), it is an artificial selection.
These are discussed by Mr Howard in the paper referred to, but in brief they all amount to measures of general hygiene, and the isolation, prompt removal, or proper sterilization of the animal or human excrement in which these flies breed.
By a repetition of the heating process on two or more succeeding days, complete sterilization may be effected, although a single treatment is sufficient to render the milk stable for a few days.
Imperfect sterilization shows itself in many cases by gas development within the tin, which causes the ends to become convex and drummy.
Were it not for the facts that sterilization is rarely quite perfect, and that the food attacks the tin, the contents of tin canisters ought to keep for an indefinite length of time.
Sterilization is effected by placing the tins in pressure chambers, which are heated by steam to 120 deg.
The most revolutionary invention of the XIX century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.
The artificial sterilization of marriage makes it possible for marriage to fulfill its accidental function whilst neglecting its essential one.
Sterilization of a wound, or of the substances coming in contact with it, may be accomplished by using the aseptic or antiseptic method; by combining these two methods we obtain the best results.
Although moist heat is very much quicker and more satisfactory in its action, yet it is often inconvenient to employ it in the sterilization of gowns, towels, operating suits, etc.
The formaldehyde fumes are employed for the disinfection of clothing, rooms, bedding, and also for the sterilization of catheters.
It must be remembered that in operative surgical work, germs which will not develop are, for practical purposes, as good as dead; therefore such results do not invalidate the present methods of sterilization for operations.
When a substance to be sterilized by heat will not bear so high a temperature, the method of fractional sterilization is employed, the fluid to be sterilized being heated to from 140 deg.
However, sterilization by heat has been greatly facilitated by the introduction of the autoclave, by means of which a very high temperature under pressure can be obtained.
Alcohol+ possesses marked antiseptic properties and is one of the best agents for the sterilization of the hands of the surgeon, and for the skin of the patient.
Asepsis aims at thorough sterilization of the parts and of all the objects brought into contact with the wounds, and the exclusion of germs by the use of occlusive bandages and dressings.
They naturally stimulate interest in the discovery of better methods of sterilization and especially in the thorough application of the methods upon which we are now depending, in order to obtain the best possible results from them.
At the same time there are none of the harmful effects, either physical or mental, such as usually follow the better known forms of sterilizationwhich are in reality asexualization rather than sterilization.
As a concrete example of a most commendable eugenic practice we should mention the sterilization of certain classes of criminal and insane as it is now practiced in the States of Indiana and Connecticut.
Certainly, also, there are cases in which sterilization is desirable, if voluntarily accepted.
The compulsory presentation of certificates of health and good breeding as a preliminary to marriage forms no part of Eugenics, nor is compulsory sterilization a demand made by any reasonable eugenist.
In some American States sterilization for some classes of defective persons has been established by statute, but it is difficult to obtain reliable information as regards the working and the results of such legislation.
But neither certification nor sterilizationshould be compulsory.
The supplies requiring special preparation and sterilization are: Three pounds of absorbent cotton.
There are two methods of killing bacteria--sterilization and pasteurization.
By sterilization is meant the process of rendering the milk germ free by heating, by boiling.
If the persons who have these diseases are sexually sterile, evidently the heredity so far as they are concerned will be cut across; hence the advocates of legal sterilization wish to have these patients sterilized to protect society.
Such sterilization of a woman is in contravention to the decretal of Gregory[111] as given in the chapter on Vasectomy.
Once crazy, always crazy, is an aphorism with much truth in it, and it is doubtful that sterilization in itself will prevent ultimate insanity.
The bad effect, sterilization, must be perpetual in his case or it is foolish, but the sterilization is not a punishment, nor a means of saving the health of the patient.
Even temporary sterilization is sterilization, a grave mutilation, while it lasts, and the condition is really moral fundamentally, and therefore not a fitting object for physical remedies.
The sterilization would fall under the decrees and penalties described at the end of the chapter on Cesarean Section.
Apart from the matter of mutilation, the effects of double oophorectomy are very grave,[229] and removal of the uterus or the ovaries merely forsterilization is not only immoral, but altogether unjustifiable scientifically.
When the patient is morally responsible vasectomy would not be licit, as there is no adequation between a physical evil like sterilization and a moral vice.
When the ovaries or uterus are removed, or the major part of the tubes are resected, or the lining of the uterus has been destroyed, the sterilization is permanent.
Such a sterilization would be a grave mutilation without a present excusing danger, and it would render the primary end of marriage always impossible.
He publishes the texts of all the laws past and present, gives his idea of a model sterilization law, together with the necessary forms for putting it into effect.
It follows that segregation would still be needed in the case of a very large proportion of defectives, but, if they are segregated, sterilization is unnecessary.
Sterilization in suitable cases is not a high price to pay for liberty.
The Committee feel that the information at present available in regard to sterilization or desexualization of sexual offenders is quite inadequate to permit of a sound and final judgment as to the value of the procedure.
The assertion that "sterilization at the present time is not a practical proposition" is difficult to understand.
It has been stated that a process of sterilization by means of X-rays can be applied to either sex.
There are, of course, numbers of mental defectives who can never be allowed their liberty, and in the case of these the question of sterilization need not be considered.
To consider in the first place the operation of simple sterilization (vasectomy or salpingectomy).
The edges and points should always be carefully tested immediately before sterilizationon a drum covered with fine kid specially made for the purpose.
This complication arises from a variety of causes--for example, imperfectsterilization of the suture material, or of the patient’s skin preceding the operation.
Suction apparatus has been used for removing the soft lens matter, but it is not to be recommended in most cases, owing to the difficulty of sterilization and the trauma which it may cause.
The grim truth of the matter is this: The whole white race is exposed, immediately or ultimately, to the possibility of social sterilization and final replacement or absorption by the teeming colored races.
What is absolutely certain is that any wholesale Oriental influx would inevitably doom the whites, first of the Pacific coast, and later of the whole United States, to social sterilization and ultimate racial extinction.
Law on the subject of sterilization could at first be permissive.
Of these two operations for the sterilization of men, vasectomy is preferable.
We have therefore at our hand, a simple, safe, and certain method of stopping procreation by the sterilization of women by tubo-ligature.
The future of society demands that compulsorysterilization of the unfit should be adopted.
The State must protect itself against the collateral danger of artificial sterilization of its best stock.
There is much evidence to suggest that artificial sterilization may become as a great vice, as great a danger to the State as criminal abortion.
There must of necessity be many on the border-land between the fit and the unfit, and clauses permitting sterilization under some circumstances would be required.
When the principle of artificial sterilization is accepted by the State, the organization necessary to ensure that only the fit shall procreate, will only be a matter of arrangement by experts.
The Fallopian tubes have been ligatured by Kossman, Ruhl and Neuman for the sterilization of women with pelvic deformities; but all testify to the danger of subsequent abnormal or ectopic pregnancy, and several instances are given.
Sterilization permits the unfit to be entirely at liberty, to marry, if they can find mates, and to have all the pleasures of life except that of parenthood.
Sterilization constitutes a violation of the divine commandment as well as of human rights.
In the last few weeks the sterilization of the so-called mixed marriages has begun.
Sterilization is a physical and spiritual mutilation directly at variance with God's commandment that we shall not dishonour, hate, wound or kill our neighbours.
Nearly all of the twelve states which have sterilization laws specify insanity, feeble-mindedness, epilepsy and criminality.
That sterilization can be put into effect is indisputable, as may be seen from the fact that several hundred operations have been performed in Indiana.
First of all, since there is some considerable popular misunderstanding on the subject, it should be made plain that by sterilization is not necessarily, nor in fact generally, meant asexualization, or the removal of the reproductive glands.
Practically all are agreed that either permanent custodial care through the reproductive period or sterilization should be enforced.
We might as well recognize once for all that in such cases nothing short of close custodial care or sterilization will accomplish the end desired.
We must not forget that when we put sterilization into effect we are going to have to deal with individual cases, not general averages.
Although twelve of our states already have sterilization laws, only two, Indiana and California, seem to have made any active attempt to enforce them.
Sterilization and the exclusion of air are not quite so important in this class of preserving on account of the large amount of sugar used which takes away food from the bacteria.
So pasteurization and sterilization are done to destroy the effect of germs.
Sterilization means keeping the milk at a temperature of 212° F.
The well-known Arnold sterilizers, used for the sterilization of milk, etc.
The process of pasteurization or sterilization is applicable to whole milk, and when effectively done destroys entirely the vitality of any tubercle bacilli.
Some of the devices used for the sterilization of such utensils as milk cans are so arranged that, after steam has been introduced, hot air is passed into the can until it is thoroughly dried.
This method of sterilization is used in the canning of meats and vegetables and in the preparation of evaporated milk.
In the sterilization of milk, it is often necessary to heat for several hours, where a single exposure is made, to destroy the resistant spores, that seem to be more abundant under summer than winter conditions.
Indirect sterilization (also called by many therapeutic) is lawful when it is necessary to save life or health.
Since punitive sterilization has as its immediate effect, whether as an end or as a means, sterility of the generative potency, it may well fall under the category of direct and hence also under condemnation of the Holy Office.
Confirmation for the view is sought in the response of the Holy Office (AAS 32-73) that direct sterilization is prohibited by the law of nature.
Others deny the liceity, for sterilization does not achieve the essential purposes of punishment; it is not corrective, preventive, retributive, or emendatory.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sterilization" 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
