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Excerpt from A Treatise on Urological and Venereal Diseases Strict adherence to scientific cleanliness is equal in its im port to an intimate knowledge of the minute and gross anatomy of the urogenital tract, its abnormalities and patho logical possibilities. In the light of modern bacteriological research, urological instrumentation without proper regard to asepsis and antisepsis is nothing short of criminal. There are too many sources of unavoidable infection in the special technique of genito-urinary surgery to allow of the least lati tude in the use of the known precautions. In the general preparation, the field of operation, the hands of the surgeon and the instruments to be used should be subjected to as severe antiseptic treatment as their substances will allow, and, previous to urethral or vesical instrumenta tion, it is advisable to administer for a few days drugs which when eliminated by the kidneys have an antiseptic action upon the urinary tract. 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.