TREATMENT OF WOUNDED.
A VALUABLE DISCOVERY.
LONDON, August 5. Doctor Alexis Carrel, of the Rockefeller Institute, and Mr. Henry Dakin, a chemist, have discovered an ideal antiseptic, consisting of hydro-chloride, lime with an addition of boric acid as a preservative, and carbonate of lime to counteract acidity. ■ . > Professor Landouzy, lecturing at the Academy of Science, said that in a series of experiments at Compiegne Hospital it was applied to most frightful wounds. . Within eight days their aspect was modified in a. way quite unknown under old antiseptics. If applied, in time the infection of wounds may be considered impossible.
TREATMENT OF WOUNDED.
Grey River Argus, 7 August 1915, Page 7
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