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Civil War medicine
Author(s) -
Keen WW
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
aorn journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1878-0369
pISSN - 0001-2092
DOI - 10.1016/s0001-2092(07)69380-6
Subject(s) - tap water , medicine , surgery , engineering , environmental engineering
We operated in old bloodstained and often pus‐stained coats … with undisinfected hands … We used undisinfected instruments … and marine sponges which had been used in prior pus cases and only washed in tap water.