Dr. W. 8. Thacker, of Peking, entered a plea for radical operations in osteomyelitis. He said the fact that acute osteomyelitis had been sven here, by his colleagues and by himself amongst foreign children, Prompted him to write the paper. It was founded on a small series of cases on some of which (by the kind permissision of Dr. Sloane), he operated in Leicester Royal In. firm ary, and on some in China, He quoted the treatment as advocated by some authors, and passed on to give examples of cases which had come under his notice. One of these was at Peitaiho, North China, years' experience in surgery in an inland hospital " was the title of the paper contributed by Dr. ©. 'T. Logan, of Changteh, Hunan, He said that, if he were given the choice of doing surgical work in the finest hospital building in China without a pressure sterile izar and rubber gloves, or of working in the plainest sort of a shed with them. he would not hesitate a moment in choosing the shed. Prior to 1908, when he went on furlough, they were getting "good" results in the healing of wounds, using bare hands and plenty of bichloride solution which they applied freely tothe wounds whether they were clean or infected. They had been taught to take no chances on germs, and that it was good surgery to kill any that might have strayed into the wound during the opera. tion, He did not know how many germs they killed, but he now knew that they destroyed alor of good sue cells by the chemical treatment of freshly wounded surfaces. He would now no sooner irrigate a clean wound with bichloride or any other chemical than he would throw acid in the face of a friend.
Dr. Logan proceeded to tell, briefly, the conditions under which their work had been done, and he also gave results for what they may be worth. He touched noon the of rubber gloves,
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