Medicine:Serbian barrel
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Short description: Device used for sterilizing clothes
A Serbian barrel is a sterilization device used for sterilizing clothes. It consists of a wooden or metal barrel or other container which is then heated to disinfect items hung inside it by moist heat sterilization.[1][2]
The Serbian barrel was pioneered by the British surgeon William Hunter during the 1915 typhus and relapsing fever epidemic in Serbia.[3][4]
References
- ↑ U. S. Army Medical Service (1931) (in en). The Army Medical Bulletin. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 875.
- ↑ United States War Department (1944) (in en). Fumigation and Bath Company: War Department Technical Manual TM 10-645. p. 27.
- ↑ Eddie, Graeme D. (20 May 2015). "William Hunter (1861-1937) & the Order of St. Sava | Untold Stories" (in en-US). http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/untoldstories/2015/05/20/william-hunter-1861-1937-the-order-of-st-sava/.
- ↑ Hunter, William (1918). "New Methods Of Disinfection For The Prevention And Arrest Of Lice-Borne Diseases (Typhus, Relapsing, And Trench Fevers)". The British Medical Journal 2 (3008): 198–201. ISSN 0007-1447.
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