Semmelweis, His Life and His Doctrine: A Chapter in the History of Medicine

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University Press, 1909 - Medicine - 369 pages
 

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Page 360 - But when it had been shown by the researches of Pasteur that the septic property of the atmosphere depended not on the oxygen, or any gaseous constituent, but on minute organisms suspended in it, which owed their energy to their vitality, it occurred to me that decomposition in the injured part might be avoided without excluding the air, by applying as a dressing some material capable of destroying the life of the floating particles.

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