On “intertraction” between albuminous substances and saline solutions

Abstract
In 1906 I pointed out that hypertonic salt solutions applied to wounds, sinuses and foci of infection increased the discharge from these, supplementing the ordinary mechanical drainage by drawing out from the tissues infected and corrupted lymph. In the war, and especially in its earlier period when every form of sepsis and gangrene was rife and almost every wound was foul, I again advocated treatment by hypertonic salt solutions. The method was then employed extensively and with good results.

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