| Show as an I 1 properly dress a wound Is not aisy thing and the process Is corn rated and may be costly when the bessing has to be renewed every day there are none of these object alons however in the method of dr for whether the dressing Is to abe applied to a recent cut or to an ulcerated tumor a sheet of silver or iver leaf Is all that Is necessary the allver Is simply placed on the wound or ulcer and as it sticks closely to the surface a little cotton soaked in collo dion 1 sufficient to keep it in place the effects of this sheet of silver are very remarkable where the wound Is a recent one and nat contaminated with microbes the wound quickly heals under the influence of the silver without inflammation or suppuration and without presenting the slightest bad symptom conditions are just as favorable in cases of ulcer chronic ul of the leg for example in which case the suppuration decreases little by little while the ulcerated surface gradually becomes covered with healthy skin which boon produces a good in place of the ulcer this perfect has been ob bained in many cases of ulcerated can of the skin what Is this property that silver possesses 9 it is due to the great anti septic power of this metal which Is proved by the following experiment several years ago a physician of lyons dr rollan decided to cultivate microbes in a bouillon which he had placed in a silver vessel to his great surprise he found that in place of mul ti plying in the nutritive liquid the microbes perished and at the end of a few hours completely disappeared which fact was all the more cemarka ble as the same microbes multiplied ad infinitum when placed in another vessel pursuing his investigations dr rollan analyzed the bouillon which was contained in the silver vessel and found therein a very small trace of sil ver which infinitely small quantity had rendered antiseptic a liter of bouillon not less curious is the statement of a physician who counted the number of microbes found on pieces of money I 1 do not recall exactly the figures given but the calculation showed that on money there were found only one fifth as many microbes as on a gold piece and a hundred dimps less than on a copper piece public opinion |
