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| Nurses at Base Hospital 21 using the Carrel-Dakin method of infected wound treatment, ca. 1918. French Army surgeon Alexis Carrel had developed a new method for the treatment of wounds during the first years of the war. The principles of Carrel’s treatment of infected wounds were mechanical cleansing, surgical removal of foreign material and excision of devitalized tissue, and adequate chemical sterilization of the wound. Dakin’s solution (a hypochlorite solution that was both germicidal and non-irritating) was used for the chemical sterilization of the wounds. |