Asepsis and antisepsis in abdominal surgery and gynaecology : for guidance in medical homes and private practice / by H. MacNaughton-Jones.

Date:
1899
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Credit: Asepsis and antisepsis in abdominal surgery and gynaecology : for guidance in medical homes and private practice / by H. MacNaughton-Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    In any home or private house, the operating-room should be as far as possible removed from a lavatory or housemaid's closet, and the most careful disinfection of these should be secured if they are near the room in which the patient sleeps after operation/ Necessaries in the Room.—Everything needful for an operation should be in the room before it commences, and there should be no necessity for any one to leave the apartment while it is proceeding. In any private house there ought to be in readiness for the surgeon a few small buckets or pails, sufficient basins, the disinfectant solutions, bottles of perchloride of mercury and absolute alcohol, arrangements for supply of boiled and hot water, a supply of towels, small blankets, a hypodermic needle, with tablets of strychnine, some flannel bandages, irrigation- douche with tube and nozzle, two rubber sheets, a suitable table which has been well scrubbed with disinfectant, small tables for anaesthetist's instruments and for the separate basins for the rinsing of the operator's and assistants' hands, restoratives, kept together and apart, for use in emergency. Fig. II. vaginal douche-pipe. Fig. 12. Glass pipette for attaching to tube for assistant's use in vaginal operations. 1 Chinosol is an excellent disinfectant for closet use, and to disin- fect the stools. 2