Excerpt from Southern California Practitioner, Vol. 11 Having finished the curettement, we again irrigate and dry the cavity, with aseptic cotton. Some surgeons now inject tincture of iodine or persulphate of iron; others, and I think with better effect, mop out the cavity with carbolic acid and glycerine, equal parts, or with pyroligneous acid. The cotton should be tied to the applicator with removal threads and the excess of carbolic acid removed by pressure, with absorbent cotton, before it is passed into the uterus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.