Annual Report of the Surgeon General of the United States Navy: Medical Statistics |
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Page 26 - ... hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary and hygienic instruction; purchase and repairs of wagons and harness; purchase of and feed for horses and cows; trees, plants, garden tools, and seeds; furniture and incidental articles for the museum of hygiene, naval dispensary, Washington, naval laboratory, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, surgeons...
Page 310 - For the destruction of infectious material which owes -its infecting power to the presence of micro-organisms not containing spores, the committee recommends : 1. Fire. Complete destruction by burning. 2. Boiling in water half an hour. 3. Dry heat. 110° C. (230° Fahr.) for two hours. 4. Chloride of lime.
Page 237 - The number of women who willingly sacrificed their ovaries to restore their shattered health without securing the expected relief has increased to an alarming extent. This sad experience has made the gynecologists more desperate and bold. It is difficult to say where this rage for the removal of the female sexual organs will end, or what organ will be the next battle-ground for the aggressive gynecologists.
Page 310 - Sulphur dioxide, exposure for twelve hours to an atmosphere containing at least 4 volumes per cent of this gas in presence of moisture.
Page 233 - Antiseptic and aseptic surgery have smoothed the rough and rugged pathway of the practical surgeon ; ordinary cleanliness has given way to surgical cleanliness. The almost universal introduction of antiseptic and aseptic precautions in the treatment of wounds in private and hospital practice has nearly eradicated the three greatest enemies of the surgeon of old, namely, hospital gangrene, erysipelas, and secondary hemorrhage, and minimized the occurrence of suppuration and its manifold immediate...
Page 159 - The question is of very great importance to those who are entrusted with the care of the public health, as leprosy is now acknowledged to be a contagious disease. Every leper is a danger to his surroundings, the danger varying with the nature and extent of his relations therewith, and also with the sanitary conditions under which he lives. Although among the lower classes, every leper is especially dangerous to his family and fellow-workers, cases of leprosy frequently appear in the higher social...
Page 234 - ... terminates speedily in death from general sepsis. In the treatment of diffuse phlegmonous processes it is now customary to make free incisions, establish free drainage, and disinfect the cavity by flushing it freely with a safe and yet efficient antiseptic solution, such as a saturated solution of acetate of aluminium, a 3 per-cent.
Page 310 - Exposure for 12 hours to an atmosphere containing at least 4 volumes per cent, of this gas, preferably in presence of moisture." 8. Carbolic acid. 2 to 5 per cent, solution. 9. Sulphate of copper. 2 to 5 per cent. solution. 10. Chloride of zinc. 4 to 10 per cent, solution. The Committee would make the following recommendations with reference to the practical application of these agents for disinfecting purposes : — FOR EXCRETA.
Page 233 - Hoyer wrote the introduction to his classic work on surgery he expressed the conviction that surgery had reached perfection. How little did he dream of the great changes that would be wrought in the practice of his cherished profession by the progressive pathologists and surgeons of the next few generations! What a contrast...
Page 236 - The frequency with which women are being castrated to-day is one of the most flagrant transgressions of the limits of the art of surgery. It is not unusual for one operator to exhibit from five to six normal ovaries as the result of half a day's work. All kinds of excuses are made for this kind of surgery.