Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1916 — Sunlight Best Disinfectant. [ARTICLE]

Sunlight Best Disinfectant.

The latest angle on healing that the emergency of the European war has created is the replacement of strong sterilizing substances by plain, ordinary, everyday sunlight. The jays of Old Sol have been discovered by a French physician to be the very best enemy of - infected wounds that nature has to offer The bacteria that complicate woundt havd’been fought by acids and cleansing liquids of many descriptions and degrees of strength. Carbolic acid is one of the most rigorous of methods Used, although cauterization by a hot ‘branding iron is the most heroic.