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Healing History: Dakin’s Solution for Limb Salvage

by Amelia McCracken | Mar 29, 2021 | Article

WW1 Dakin’s Advertisement (americanhistory.si.edu) During the First World War (1914-1918), antiseptics were commonly used to combat infection as championed by the Father of Modern Surgery, Dr. Joseph Lister 1 . The heavily manured soil of Western Europe was...

Healing History: Dakin’s Solution for Limb Salvage

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