Modern wound treatment and the conduct of an operation / [Sir George Thomas Beatson].

  • Beatson, George Thomas, Sir
Date:
1913
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Credit: Modern wound treatment and the conduct of an operation / [Sir George Thomas Beatson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    quiet the bowels, and immediately before the operation wipe out the rectum with swabs of dry sterilised gauze. (cl) Vagina.—Douche out the passage with warm boracic or weak carbolic lotions, and thoroughly wipe it out with swabs soaked in weak carbo-sapol solution. Follow this by a second douching with warm boracic lotion, and then plug the part with iodo- form gauze. Just before the operation, withdraw the plug and syringe out again. In carcinoma of the cervix uteri it has been advised to curette and cauterise the part before operation. (e) Urethra.—It contains numerous micro-organ- isms which are with difficulty entirely got rid of. By using a wash-out catheter they may be lessened in number and their growth inhibited by a mild antiseptic lotion. (/) Bladder.—In its normal state the bladder is aseptic, and when sepsis has become established it must be met by frequent washing out with warm antiseptic lotions of boracic acid or of weak salicylic acid. In addition, the growth of the bacteria must be inhibited by the internal adminis-