Iodoform
Item
Title
Iodoform
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Special Collections
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Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research
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Description
"Since the beginning of the 20th century, iodoform has been commonly used as a healing and antiseptic dressing or powder for wounds and sores, however such clinical use to this date is limited. Iodoform is soluble in fatty acids and decomposes releasing iodine in nascent state (96,7% of iodine) when in contact with secretions or endodontic infections" (Estrela 2006: 33 - 37).
Access Rights
Currently locked away in Strongroom 3 in the UCT Jagger Library. Prior appointment to the library staff needed in order to view the object. Object should be handled with gloves, and a form signed in order to take any photos of it.
Creator
Burroughs Wellcome & Co.
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Date Created
1890
endDate
1940
Source
UCT Special Collections - BC666
Burroughs Wellcome & Co.1925. ‘Tabloid’: brief medical guide for explorers, missionaries, travellers, colonists, planters and others. London: Burroughs Wellcome & Co.
Resonances
Walter Floyd
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Chest: a botanical ecology
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medicine
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disease
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illness
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medicine chest
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imperialism
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colonialism
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iodoform
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cylinder
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nascent
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antiseptic
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bacteria
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dressing
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healing
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secretions
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infection
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decompose
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Type
Object
Contributor
Nina Liebenberg
