Abstract
FROM the beginning of the war the Medical Research Committee has paid special attention to the important subject of antiseptics in the treatment of wounds. The part taken by Sir Almroth Wright and the bacteriological depart-ment of the committee is well known. At same time the committee has supported independent inquiries in other directions, which fall under two main heads. The first group comprises the studies of the properties of hypochiorites and their derivatives. At Edinburgh Profs. Ritchie and Lorrain Smith produced and investigated the solution now widely known and used “Eusol,” in which the prefix is not Greek, might be supposed, but stands for Edinburgh University. Simultaneously, Dr. Dakin, working in collaboration with Prof. Cohen, of the University of Leeds, and Dr. Carrel, in France, brought forward the now well-known “Dakin” hypochiorite solution, used widely for the French Army, for the British Army in France, and America. Later, Dr. Dakin, working for the committee in its biochemical department, investigated the properties of paratoluene sulphochloramide, prepared earlier for him in Prof. Cohen's laboratory by a modification of Chattaway's original process. This antiseptic has already obtamed wide use in England and France, under Dr. Dakin's name, “chloramine-T,” and in America under the name “chiorazene.” Being non-toxic and less unpleasant than hypochlorite solutions close to the nose, it has been specially useful mouth and jaw cases, and from, its property ready adsorption by textiles, it provides antiseptic gauzes of far higher potency than those previously available.
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Antiseptics, and the Treatment of Infected Wounds . Nature 99, 265–266 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099265a0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/099265a0