Improvements in Protecting Surgical Dressings.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 17th May, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 16th Feb., 1900-Accepted, 31st Mar., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Protecting Surgical Dressings.
I, WILLIAM BRADBURY ROBINSON, the younger, of Elm Lodge, Storrs Lane,
Chesterfield, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to the protection of the dressing during the process of
sterilization, also in keeping the dressing sterile after it has been sterilized.
The usual method employed is to place the dressing in a tin or copper vessel,
and sterilize in any well known sterilizer.
This is effective but can only be used in an institution, the receptacle being
too expensive for surgeons in private practice.
By my invention surgeons will be able to obtain a perfect sterile dressing at
a cost little exceeding that of an antiseptic dressing.
I wrap the dressing to be sterilized, firstly in parchment paper, then in water-
proof or non absorbent wool (sublimated for preference), and lastly in paper.
I place the package in a sterilizer and sterilize in the ordinary way by dry heat
or steam (preferably steam), the non-absorbent or waterproof wool keeping the
inner dressing perfectly dry.
If the non-absorbent wool is sublimated and by accident the package should
get wet, the sublimated non-absorbent wool keeps the inner dressing aseptic
without the inner dressings becoming charged with an antiseptic.
It is known that antiseptics, if powerful enough to be efficient, will irritate
and so retard the healing of a wound.
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Improvements in гrotecting surgical Dressings,
I, WILLIAM BRADBURY ROBINSON, the younger, of Elm Lodge, Storrs Lane,
Chesterfield, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement: —
My invention relates to the protection of the dressing during the process of
sterilization, also in keeping the dressing sterile after it has been sterilized.
The usual method employed is to place the dressing in a tin or copper vessel,
and sterilize in any well known sterilizer.
This is effective but can only be used in an institution, the receptacle being
too expensive for surgeons in private practice.

page_text: By my invention surgeons will be able to obtain a perfect sterile dressing at
a cost little exceeding that of an antiseptic dressing.
wrap the dressing to be sterilized, firstly in parchment paper, then in water-
proof or non absorbent wool (sublimated for preference), and lastly in paper.
place the package in a sterilizer and sterilize in the ordinary way by dry heat
or steam (preferably steam), the non-absorbent or waterproof wool keeping the
inner dressing perfectly dry.
If the non-absorbent wool is sublimated and by accident the package should
get wet, the sublimated non-absorbent wool keeps the inner dressing aseptic
without the inner dressings becoming charged with an antiseptic.
It is known that antiseptics, if powerful enough to be efficient, will irritate
and so retard the healing of a wound.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is;-
The protection of surgical dressings by wrapping them in parchment paper,
non absorbent wool (preferably sublimated) and paper or their equivalents and
then sterilizing them.
Dated this 7th day of February 1900.
WILLIAM BRADBURY ROBINSON, JUNR.