Improvements relating to dressings for wounds / [Alfred Thamm].

  • Thamm, Alfred.
Date:
1895
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Credit: Improvements relating to dressings for wounds / [Alfred Thamm]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2 N° 3242.—A.D. 1895. Thamms Improvements relating to Dressings for Wound*. by impregnating cotton wool or wadding with a ten per cent, carbolic solution, and then drying it. Photoxylene is made from carefully prepared trinitro-cellulose (5 per cent.), alcohol (47 per cent.) and ether (47 per cent.). The application of the new dressing is so simple, that in most cases it may be 5 done by the patient himself, and the dressing adheres so firmly, that prolonged soaking in warm water is necessary to remove the same. It not only prevents the edges of the wound from separating, but even tends to draw them together, thus promoting the rapid healing of the wound. Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said 10 invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare, that what I claim is :— 1. The preparation of a dressing for wounds, which consists in applying to the wound a pad of plain or carbolized wadding or cotton wool and then impregnating the same with collodion or photoxylene, substantially as described. 15 2. A wound dressing consisting of carbolized wadding impregnated with collodion or photoxylene, substantially as described. Dated this 18th day of June 1895. FAIRFAX & WETTER, 433, Strand, London, Agents. 20 London : Printed for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, by Darling & Son, Ltd.—1895 LIBRARY