A text-book of medicine for students and practitioners / by Adolf Strümpell ; With editorial notes by Frederick C. Shattuck.
- Adolph Strümpell
- Date:
- 1901
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A text-book of medicine for students and practitioners / by Adolf Strümpell ; With editorial notes by Frederick C. Shattuck. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.
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![Standard Solution No. 3 Dissolve four ounces of corrosive sublimate and one pound of sulphate of copper in a gallon of water. Two fluid ounces of this standard solution to the gallon of water will make a suitable solution for the disinfection of clothing. The articles to be disinfected must be thoroughly soaked with the disinfecting solution, and left in it for at least two hours, after which they may be wrung out and sent to the wash. Clothing may also be disinfected by immersing it for four hours in a two-per- cent, solution of carbolic acid. Soiled mattresses, pillows, feather beds, and articles of this nature can not be eifectually disinfected by sulphur fumigation, owing to the fact that the gas does not penetrate to their interior in sufficient amount. For articles of this kind, and in general for articles of little value, which have been soiled by the discharges of the sick, destruction by fire will be advisable. Disinfection of the Sick-Boom.—No disinfectant can take the place of free ventilation and cleanliness, and it is impracticable to disinfect an occupied apart- ment. Neutralizing bad odors is not disinfection. All surfaces should be thoroughly washed with Standard Solution No. 1, diluted with three parts of water, or with a 1-1,000 solution of corrosive sublimate. Standard Solution No. 3, diluted in the proportion of four ounces to the gallon of water, may be used. The walls and ceiling, if plastered, should be brushed over with one of these solutions, and subsequently washed over with a lime-wash. Especial care must be taken to wash away all dust from window ledges and other places where it may have settled, and thoroughly to cleanse crevices and out-of-the-way places. After this application of the disinfecting solution, and an interval of twenty-four hours or longer for free ventilation, the floors and wood- work should be well scrubbed with soap and hot water, and this should be followed by a second more prolonged exposure to fresh air, admitted through open doors and windows. As an additional precaution, fumigation with sulphur-dioxide gas is to be recommended, especially for rooms which have been occupied by patients with small-pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhus fever, and yellow fever. All apertures into the room should be carefully closed, and not less than three pounds of sul- phur for each thousand feet of air-space should be burned. To secure complete combustion, the sulphur, in powder or small fragments, and moistened with alcohol, should be placed in a shallow iron pan, and this should be placed on bricks in a tub partly filled with water to guard against fire.—Editor.] [Formaldehyde gas is superior to sulphur dioxide, because of its greater efficiency and rapidity of action, and because it does less harm to household goods. Both gases have merely a superficial action.—V.] CHAPTER IT TYPHUS FEVER (Spotted Fever. Ship Fever) Typhus fever is an acute infectious disease, perfectly distinct from typhoid fever, but formerly often confounded with it. The similarity of the two diseases, which led to their similar names, consists only in the grave general condition with](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21206296_0058.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
