"AN IDEAL ANTISEPTIC."
The Petit Journal has published a glowing account of hermetine (so-called after its inventor), or electrolised salt water, as a cure for diphtheria. Dr. 1 .oger, of the Asmdrea Asylum for the deaf and dumb, says:—"Tho electrolised saline water is neither caustic nor irritating ; it may be applied to the mucous membrane as to tho skin; it instantly removes all bad odours : stops all putrescent fcrmentatiou; kills microbes more effectually and rapidly than any other antiseptic ; cleanses and heals f-etid wounds and sores, and hastens healing; it is an ideal antiseptic. Consequently it appear* to mc of the utmost importance to make it known, and to draw attention to all the applications that it.may be put to both from a domestic point of view for deodorising and cleansing, aud from a medical point of view as an nntise2>tic and healer par excellence. In angina and eoryza washing garglo3 and applications of hermitino have given mc the best of results. I treatod with perfect success a case of incipient diphtheria exclusively with lotions and gargles of the electrolised solution."
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9521, 14 September 1896, Page 4
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