Open AccessOn “intertraction” between albuminous substances and saline solutions
Publication year - 1921
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series b, containing papers of a biological character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9185
pISSN - 0950-1193
DOI - 10.1098/rspb.1921.0010
Subject(s) - hypertonic saline , tonicity , saline , surgery , sepsis , medicine , salt solution , lymph , salt (chemistry) , anesthesia , pathology , chemistry
In 1906 I pointed out that hypertonic salt solutions applied to wounds, sinuses and foci of infection increased the discharge from these, supplementing the ordinary mechanical drainage by drawing out from the tissues infected and corrupted lymph. In the war, and especially in its earlier period when every form of sepsis and gangrene was rife and almost every wound was foul, I again advocated treatment by hypertonic salt solutions. The method was then employed extensively and with good results.