Modern methods of antiseptic wound treatment : compiled from notes and suggestions from the following surgeons / D. Hays Agnew [and others].

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[1888?]
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Credit: Modern methods of antiseptic wound treatment : compiled from notes and suggestions from the following surgeons / D. Hays Agnew [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    PREFACE. The collection and publication of the matter contained in these pages are due to suggestions recently made by an eminent surgeon, to the follow- ing effect: 1st. That the aseptic and antiseptic methods in surgery being of com- paratively recent origin, most of the text books do not contain concise information concerning the details of their application. 2d. That the publication of such information, together with some of the special methods practiced by our leading surgeons, and the recent improvements in the general method, due to sanitary science, would lead to a fuller appreciation of the value of asepsis and antisepsis in gen- eral practice, and prove interesting to the profession at large. In consequence of the above suggestions, a considerable number of well-known authorities were invited to contribute matter relating to the different germicides, dressings, and other details, with comprehensive directions for applying them in private practice. From the material cordially furnished in response to the above invi- eation, this little book has been compiled. The matter in general is such as has been sanctioned by the majority at contributors. Wherever exceptions have been received they have been noted. In the arrangement and revision of the manuscript much valuable assistance has been rendered by Dr. W. T. Gibb, formerly of the House Staff of Bellevue Hospital. JOHNSON & JOHNSON.