Scientific American

Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891

The Relation of Bacteria to Practical Surgery.--By JOHN B. ROBERTS, A.M., M.D.--A full review from the surgeon's standpoint of this subject, with valuable directions for practitioners.

Chapters

1. Chapter 1

The Relation of Bacteria to Practical Surgery.--By JOHN B. ROBERTS, A.M., M.D.--A full review from the surgeon's standpoint of this subject, with valuable directions for practit...

2. Chapter 2

Punches are generally made flat on their cutting edge, as shown in Fig. 12. There are also punches made spiral on their cutting edge, as shown in Fig. 13. This punch, instead of...

3. Chapter 3

The Empress of India is built throughout of mild steel, the stem and stern post, together with the shaft brackets, being of cast steel. Steel faced armor, having a maximum thick...

4. Chapter 4

The first point in discussing this question of fast and fugitive dyes is to define the meaning of these terms "fast" and "fugitive." Unfortunately, as frequently employed, they...

5. Chapter 5

When we examine the Congo colors, amid a number of very fugitive colors, we find a few which are satisfactorily fast. Among the reds, for example, diamine fast red is quite rema...

6. Chapter 6

The statistics of this report are divided into two sections: First, the discoveries and finds of precious stones in the United States and the mineral specimens sold for museums...

7. Chapter 7

Many scores of bacteria have been, by patient study, differentiated from their fellows and given distinctive names. Their nomenclature corresponds in classification and arrangem...

8. Chapter 8

Surgical cleanliness differs from the housewife's idea of cleanliness in that its details seem frivolous, because it aims at the removal of microscopic particles. Stains, such a...

9. Chapter 9

The seeds of death do not lie, as Weismann appears to assume, in the differentiation of the cells of the higher animals. On the contrary, all the cell series, not only those of...

10. Chapter 10

To La Salle belongs the honor of tracing the true course of the Mississippi river. He charted it with a faithfulness and accuracy that would do credit to the surveys of the pres...

11. Chapter 11

_Antimony_.--The method employed in the case of antimony is that adopted in its quantitative estimation by means of electrolysis, a method which insures a complete separation fr...