When bacteria are killed by carbolic acid or iodine, they stay dead; their tissues are destroyed by corrosive chemical action. But some modern soaps, though so bland that they are used for softening ...

WITH reference to the note by Mr. J. H. Spalding contained in NATURE of June 13, I am reminded by my friend Mr. Rodwell that some five or six years ago I showed him the cohesion figure of carbolic ...

THE appearance of this book at the present time is opportune, for the lectures deal very largely with Lord Lister's researches on antiseptic treatment, of which they form a brief history. Lister's ...

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