TY  - JOUR
T1  - WOuld surgery suffer if iodoform was abolished?
AU  - BRUSH EC
Y1  - 1899/12/16
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1899.92450770012002e
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1526
EP  - 1527
VL  - XXXIII
IS  - 25
N2  - You may break, you may shatter the box, if you will, But the scent of iodoform will linger there still.If something else just as efficacious can be found, or is at hand, then iodoform should be forever banished, on account of its odor if for no other reason. This odor is unmistakable, and to-day the laity know it quite as well as the physician. "Once smelled, always remembered," is surely true of this promiscuously used drug. You meet a man on the street and, as he passes, you get a whiff of iodoform; you at once wonder whether he is a physician or a patient. You enter a sleeping-car and the well-known odor comes to your attention; you at once look over your fellow passengers for the suspected one. You get the same odor in the ballroom or in the church, and you at once wonder who has it
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1899.92450770012002e
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.92450770012002e
ER  -