RT Journal
T1 NEw instrument.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD November 18
VO XXXIII
IS 21
SP 1308
OP 1308
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.02450730064036
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450730064036
AB A NEW STERILIZER FOR COUNTRY AND PRIVATE PRACTICE. 
    BY HAMILTON FISH, M.D., OURAY, COLO.In an endeavor to obviate the lack of facilities of the practitioner who is unable to obtain the steam sterilized materials required by the asceptician in country practice, I have devised a steam sterilizer that is adjustable to the ordinary household teakettle and I believe that it will appeal to those practitioners who are desirous of obtaining the results attainable only by a strict adherence to the principles of an aseptic technic. The apparatus is remarkably simple, inexpensive, easily portable—it being no larger than a physician's gripsack—and its sterilizing properties as efficient as the more expensive and cumbrous apparatus. Its great advantage is that it is easily portable and always ready for use where a teakettle of boiling water is obtainable.Dressings may be packed and sterilized in this instrument at the physician's house and kept