"Tell me, doctor • • • I've often wondered. How is it that doctors and nurses, especially in hospitals , can come into contact with so much infection, and yet never seem to catch anything? 9 * Doctors and nurses escape infection simply because they arc never oft guard against it. In our great surgical and maternity wards throughout the country the modern defence against infection is ‘ Dcttol \ Hands and instruments as well as wounds and susceptible tissues arc made and kept gcrm-cican by this .modern antiseptic. The properties of ‘ Dettol ’ are remarkable. This ruthless destroyer of germs—three times more efficient than pure carbolic acid—is entirely non-poisonous. This, the chosen weapon of modern surgery, is a clean, clear fluid, pleasant to use and pleasant to smell. It docs not even stain linen. When you are the nurse How easy then for you, and how wise, to learn from the hospital! Have * Dcttol * always in your home. On the cut or scratch that may fester, in the room from which sickness may spread, on your own hands when you act as nurse, use 4 Dettol * freely. Its task is to keep you safe. Depend upon it. Ask your Doctor he knows all about * Dettol ’. Your Chemist has ’ Dettol ' in bottles. 2/-. j!6, and 6/6. DETTOI THE MODERN ANTISEPTIC
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 30 November 1940, Page 4
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321Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 30 November 1940, Page 4
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