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Updated: June 23, 2025
If the wound happens to have been made with a knife or tool that you are not absolutely sure was perfectly clean, or if the wound gets manure or road-dirt or other filth rubbed into it, then it is best to go at once to a doctor and let him give it a thorough antiseptic dressing, which consists of cleaning it out thoroughly with strong remedies, called antiseptics, which kill the germs, but do not injure living tissues, and then putting on a germ-proof dressing as before.
Our skin, as you remember, is one of the most wonderful water-proof, germ-proof, hot-and-cold-proof coatings in the world; and as long as it remains unbroken, none but a few of the most virulent disease-germs can get through it into the body. Boils and Carbuncles, their Cause and their Cure.
Billy turned eagerly. "Oh, did you read about that, too?" she cried. "I thought it was so interesting, and I wondered if I could do it." Alice stared frankly. "You don't mean to say they actually have such things," she challenged. "Well, I read about them in a magazine," asserted Billy, " how you could have a germ-proof room. They said it was very simple, too.
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