Quotation from: General Science

Written by: Bertha M. Clark


233. Personal Disinfection. The hands may gather germs from any
substances or objects with which they come in contact; hence the hands
should be washed with soap and water, and especially before eating.
Physicians who perform operations wash not only their hands, but their
instruments, sterilizing the latter by placing them in boiling water
for several minutes.


Cuts and wounds allow easy access to the body; a small cut has been
known to cause death because of the bacteria which found their way
into the open wound and produced disease. In order to destroy any
germs which may have entered into the cut from the instrument, it is
well to wash out the wound with some mild disinfectant, such as very
dilute carbolic acid or hydrogen peroxide, and then to bind the wound
with a clean cloth, to prevent later entrance of germs.

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