Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The organization of an operation / by W.W. Keen. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![8 15. Nail-brush. 16. Two pitchers of cooled boiled water. 17. Plenty of hot water. 18. A sheet of stout wrapping-paper. 19. 1^ yards white flannel. 20. Fresh clear soup and milk. 21. Olive oil, two ounces. 22. A half-pint of vinegar. III. Dressings, etc. 1. One can of Am Ende's sublimate gauze. 2. One roll of Hartmann's wood-wool dressing. 3. A piece of rubber dam x inches. 4. Four bandages, inches wide. 5. Two ounces borated cotton. 6. 4 pound of Globe antiseptic wool. 7. Bed-pan. 8. Catheter. 9. Thermometer. 10. Hypodermatic syringe. 11. A bent glass feeding-tube. IV. Medicines, etc. 1. Carbolic acid (No. 1), flg vss in a half-gallon bottle of distilled water. 2. Carbolic acid (No. 1), fls vj. 3. Two i pound cans Squibb's ether. 4. Chloroform, fls iv. 5. Liq. morph. sulph., fl^ .]• 6. Four suppositories, 1 grain opium each. 7. Spirits ammon. aromat., fl.5 ij. 8. Alcohol, Oj. 9. Ten-grain powders of sulfonal in no. 4. 10. Brandy, flg iv. 11. Lime-water, fl,5 iv. 12. Sublimate tablets for 1:1000 solution, no. xx. I would like to add a few words in explanation of some of these directions, lest they should be obscure or misunderstood. Part I. (4) For the meal before the operation I always prefer a cup of clear soup rather than milk, with no bread or other solid food. My reason for this is that the anxiety which is so common and so natural before an](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22277109_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
