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A Summary of the Bibliographic Material Available in the Field of Otolaryngology

PLASTIC SURGERY

J. EASTMAN SHEEHAN, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1930;12(4):527-530.

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Ordinarily, there is a certain correspondence between experimental and clinical progress in any specialty. From present indications in reparative surgery, progress on the experimental side does not keep pace with that on the clinical side. Probably the readjustment in this respect will come when those who devote themselves to the research side arrive at a more thorough realization of the actual trend in clinical methods.

A suggestive example was furnished by two articles in the literature of the year, one on the use of metaphen as a germicide ¹ and the other on the inefficiency of metaphen.² Both represent a continuation of the painstaking research, avowedly experimental, to find an agent that can be depended on to reduce the liability to wound infection due to the presence in the skin itself of bacterial agents of infection. Beginning with the recognition that iodine, while it does burn the skin, does . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Professor of Plastic Surgery, New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital NEW YORK

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