Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-11-13 | Page 12 | Salt Water Proves a Fine Antiseptic

I I V V Salt Water tiler Proves a a Fine Antiseptic lIE swift recovery of ot British British T THE i sailors from t terrible wounds vp while sol soldiers Ic s similarly wounded ouI ed die because o q their contamination h have ve led led military surgeons to a adopt adaM vt salt nal wat water r as an n antiseptic and to use uso se I lItas It t as 8 it is 11 used in the tho na navy v in I an n article summing ng up the the- changes in military sur surgery e the ha Scientific ic Ameri American rj- rj can Can says saya V The The s sall sailors sailors' rs wb wounds b t dS' dS are ae submerged a an hour or or more ole in fl s 's sea a water vater Val r. r Wherefore S Sir Sr v Almroth and nd English o of ot of his s. s ha e had liadI I Introduced ed into military ary s surgery gery the I s salt l so solution ution 5 tg to 1 10 per percent c cent nt common salt plus one half of 1 f per cent citrate of soda spda and with ith considerable success s. s Here Hefe is j in point of or fact a reve reversion slOn to the old m methods methods' of drawing put out an in inflammation for V this solution determInes a flow of or lymph lymph and blood serum seum into the wounded parts so profuse that both bothI germs and their toxins are are either oither neu neu- I or carried oft off in the subsequent ciuc quent ue t dressings I I