This Article  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

WILLIAM LEIFER, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1940;42(2):245-247.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

The apparatus employed in the intravenous drip is packed and autoclaved in a special container, devised by Dr. Joseph Turner, director of the Mount Sinai Hospital. The feature of this box is a slot containing perforations which are open while in the autoclave and closed at all other times to prevent contamination.

Each set consists of a gravity flask and two lengths of translucent rubber tubing connected by a Murphy drip. The longer strip of tubing is attached to the gravity flask; the shorter, to an adaptor which fits a standard 20 gage, 1 inch (3.8 cm.) needle.

The drugs are dissolved in a solution of triple-distilled water containing 5 per cent dextrose. Because of instability, the neoarsphenamine solutions were made up at hourly intervals, as has been previously described. In the present work, the content of an ampule containing 60 mg. of mapharsen has been dissolved in 600 cc. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

Footnotes
Read at a Conference on Massive Arsenotherapy in Early Syphilis by the Continuous Intravenous Drip Method at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, April 12, 1940.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?