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Sterilizer (2)

 

 

With the electrification of our practices in the thirties, the alcohol firing was replaced by electricity.

 

 

We present a small desktop device with 220 volt plug on the side and charming porcelain handles on the lid. Purchased in 2004 on an antique market in Echternach.

 

Nota: Sterilization by boiling alone is now considered a malpractice and is to be used at most for disinfection or emergency sterilization in case of disaster. In modern practice small autoclaves are used today, steam sterilizers in which the sterilized material is subjected to particularly high temperatures (> 121 ° C) as well as a high atmospheric pressure (> 2 atm). Only then can spores and dangerous germs really be killed


Lit.:
Herbert Dräger, Werner Gill, Instrumentenkunde, Materialien und Aufbau, Pflege und Umgang, 1990 Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart.