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166 ANTISEPSIS IN DENTISTRY.
Potassium pcnnani^anatc in o per cent, aqueous solution.
Resorcin in 10 per cent, aqueous solution.
Hydrogen peroxicl in 10 per cent, aqueous solution.
Saccharin in concentrated alcoholic and acpieous solution.
^9-naphthol in 5 per cent, alcoholic solution.
Pvoktanin in concentrated aqueous solution.
Absolute alcohol.
Antiseptin in 5 per cent, aqueous solution.
Zinc sulfate in concentrated aqueous solution.
The essential oils in 5 \)or cent, emulsions and in pure form.
The three previously named, carbolic acid, trichlorphenol, and
mercury bichlorid, were the only ones that gave any satisfactory
results, and these only partially so. In regard to the rest, Prof. Miller
says : " Thev all fall far short of those already mentioned. The 10 per
cent, solution of the peroxid of hydrogen came next to carbolic acid,
but is considerably inferior to it. The essential oils, in emulsions as
well as in pure form, utterly failed to produce the desired action."
The results obtained by Miller are not wholly in accord with those
of some others. Charles B. Nancrede, M. D., in an article ^ gives a
list of agents which have " proved most reliable clinically, can be resorted
to in any emergency, or are peculiarly applicable to meet exceptional
indications :
Marked Inhibition. Complete Inhibition.
Mercuric chlorid 1 : 1,600,000 1 : 300,000
Oil of mustard 1 : 333,000 1 : 33,000
Thymol 1:86,000
Oil of turpentine 1 : 75,000
lodin 1 : 5,000 1 : 1,000
Salicylic acid 1 : 3,300 1 : 1,500
Eucalyptol . 1 : 2,500 1 : 1,251
Borax , . . 1:2,000 1:700
Potas. permanganate 1 : 1.400
Boric acid 1 : 1,250 1 : 800
Carbolic acid 1 : 1,250 1 850
:
Quinin 1 : 830 1 : 625
Alcohol ] : 100 1 : 12.5
At the time these tables w^ere prepared one agent not mentioned was
practically unknown as an antiseptic,—formaldehyd, or in solution
known as formalin.
Dr. Elmer G. Horton, B. S., assistant in Imcteriology, Department
of Hygiene, University of Pennsylvania, undertook, at the request of
Dr. Edward C. Kirk, a series of investigations with formaldehyd,^ the
results of which are given, omitting the details of experiments
:
' "Treatment of Wounds
: Antisepsis and Asepsis," Surgery by American Authors,
Park, page 365.
^ Dental Cosmos, July, 1898.
166 ANTISEPSIS IN DENTISTRY.
Potassium pcnnani^anatc in o per cent, aqueous solution.
Resorcin in 10 per cent, aqueous solution.
Hydrogen peroxicl in 10 per cent, aqueous solution.
Saccharin in concentrated alcoholic and acpieous solution.
^9-naphthol in 5 per cent, alcoholic solution.
Pvoktanin in concentrated aqueous solution.
Absolute alcohol.
Antiseptin in 5 per cent, aqueous solution.
Zinc sulfate in concentrated aqueous solution.
The essential oils in 5 \)or cent, emulsions and in pure form.
The three previously named, carbolic acid, trichlorphenol, and
mercury bichlorid, were the only ones that gave any satisfactory
results, and these only partially so. In regard to the rest, Prof. Miller
says : " Thev all fall far short of those already mentioned. The 10 per
cent, solution of the peroxid of hydrogen came next to carbolic acid,
but is considerably inferior to it. The essential oils, in emulsions as
well as in pure form, utterly failed to produce the desired action."
The results obtained by Miller are not wholly in accord with those
of some others. Charles B. Nancrede, M. D., in an article ^ gives a
list of agents which have " proved most reliable clinically, can be resorted
to in any emergency, or are peculiarly applicable to meet exceptional
indications :
Marked Inhibition. Complete Inhibition.
Mercuric chlorid 1 : 1,600,000 1 : 300,000
Oil of mustard 1 : 333,000 1 : 33,000
Thymol 1:86,000
Oil of turpentine 1 : 75,000
lodin 1 : 5,000 1 : 1,000
Salicylic acid 1 : 3,300 1 : 1,500
Eucalyptol . 1 : 2,500 1 : 1,251
Borax , . . 1:2,000 1:700
Potas. permanganate 1 : 1.400
Boric acid 1 : 1,250 1 : 800
Carbolic acid 1 : 1,250 1 850
:
Quinin 1 : 830 1 : 625
Alcohol ] : 100 1 : 12.5
At the time these tables w^ere prepared one agent not mentioned was
practically unknown as an antiseptic,—formaldehyd, or in solution
known as formalin.
Dr. Elmer G. Horton, B. S., assistant in Imcteriology, Department
of Hygiene, University of Pennsylvania, undertook, at the request of
Dr. Edward C. Kirk, a series of investigations with formaldehyd,^ the
results of which are given, omitting the details of experiments
:
' "Treatment of Wounds
: Antisepsis and Asepsis," Surgery by American Authors,
Park, page 365.
^ Dental Cosmos, July, 1898.
