OCR Text |
Show Useful to Surgeons. Special Cable to The Tribune. PARIS. Doc. C. Dr. Dubard of Dijon has Invented an antiseptic varnish, which may supersede operating gloves for surgeons. sur-geons. Tho operator, after washing his bands with soap and then In alcohol, steeps them In n mixture composed of as.once of Juniper berries and an alcoholized al-coholized solution of menthol. Tho evaporation of this mixture, which takes place rapidly, leaves a sort of protecting and antiseptic varnish behind. Unlike the operating glovo, the varnish In no wuy affects the surgeon's delicacy of j touch. |