APPLICATION OF ASEPTICS IN SURGERY OF THE ABDOMINAL AND PELVIC CAVITY

The widespread use of the antiseptic or anti-rotting method in the last 20 years, which has yielded brilliant results both in general surgery, and especially in the surgical treatment of diseases of the abdominal and pelvic organs, also has its disadvantages, the main one of which undoubtedly should be considered poisoning when using various anti-rotting medicines. In the literature there is already a rich casuistic material of deadly poisoning when used as an anesthetic, iodoform, carbolic acid, mercuric chloride, etc., etc. antiseptics or antiseptic method of treatment, despite the quick and brilliant success, still left much to be desired and made, during this entire 20-year period, both in laboratory and at the bedside of the patient, to look for means to disinfect the wound, with on the one hand, and not having a harmful effect on patients and those around them, on the other. Carbolic acid was replaced by iodine preparations, iodine preparations with mercuric chloride preparations, mercuric chloride boric acid, copper sulfate, creolin, lysol and many others, some of which have already been abandoned, some are still being tested. The degree of concentration of solutions changed, the time of their contact with the early was limited, and nevertheless, cases of poisoning, which, however, became less common, nevertheless did occur.