"The Sanitary Condition of the Mouth, and How Best to Maintain It." Paper by Dr. J. F. Dougherty, Canton. Discussion opened by Dr. W. T. Jackman, Cleveland and Dr. J. H. Wible, Canton.
EDITOR ARCHIVES:—Please allow me a word in regard to the electric deposit plate. Mr. E. E. Clark, the owner and manager, has been absent in the West in its interest most of the year, and I have, in his absence, undertaken to look after the making of the plates. For a considerable time past, the plates have been sadly deficient in gold, sometimes not enough being put on to properly vulcanize over.
I was unable to account for it, knowing that full quantity of gold was supplied. The secret has been discovered, and the thief lined his pockets instead of coating the plates with gold, and is now in jail awaiting trial for larceny.
The plates as now made are all right in every respect, and it is hoped that all its former friends will again come back to its use.
PEROXIDE OF HYDROGEN AND OZONE. THEIR ANTISEPTIC PROPERTIES.[4]
_Director of the Pasteur Institute of New York_.
GENTLEMEN:—Since the discovery of the peroxide of hydrogen by Thenard, in 1818, the therapeutical applications of this oxygenated compound seem to have been neglected both by the medical and surgical professions; and it is only in the last twenty years that a few bacteriologists have demonstrated the germicidal potency of this chemical.
Among the most elaborate reports on the use of this compound may be mentioned those of Paul Bert and Regnard, Baldy, Péan and Larrivé.
Dr. Miguel places peroxide of hydrogen at the head of a long list of antiseptics, and close to the silver salts.
Dr. Bouchut has demonstrated the antiseptic action of peroxide of hydrogen, when applied to diphtheritic exudations.
Prof. Nocart, of Alfort, attenuates the virulence of the symptomatic microbe of carbuncle before he destroys it, by using the same antiseptic.
Dr. E. R. Squibb,[5] of Brooklyn, has also reported the satisfactory results which he obtained with peroxide of hydrogen in the treatment of infectious diseases.
Although the above-mentioned scientists have demonstrated by their experiments that peroxide of hydrogen is one of the most powerful destroyers of pathogenic microbes, its use in therapeutics has not been as extensive as it deserves to be.