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Alexis Carrel. The treatment of infected wounds

Shortly after the outbreak of the war, Alexis Carrel, in collaboration with H. D. Dakin ( Herter Laboratories, New York), seeking to discover the best means of treating war-wound infections, adopted the "chemotherapeutic" method. To be successful, it was necessary, according to their views, to choose a suitable antiseptic, which, in degree of concentration used and in length of time it must be applied, would be fatal to microbes but would "not produce obvious damage to the tissue," and (2) a proper surgical technique for the antiseptic treatment of the septic wounds. Carrel and Dehelly have told the story of the evolution and practice of this Carrel-Dakin method in this book, and it has been ably translated from the French by Herbert Child.

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Publication Date

1917

Publisher

Hoeber

City

New York

Keywords

surgery, wounds and injuries

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The Rockefeller University Library 3rd Floor Special Collections WO 700 C3141 1917

Carrel, A. The treatment of infected wounds

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