Abstract
Data concerning healing and contamination of fresh open wounds from 156 cases treated recently were studied and discussed.
Various bacilli were observed in approximately 73 percent of the cases. Staphylococcus epidermidis was always the most frequent. After strenuos brushing and debridement, the incidence of positive cultivation could be reduced to about 28 percent. Primary wound healing was accomplished in about 61 percent of the untidy wounds and in about 80 percent of the tidy wounds. Causes of bad wound-healing were marginal necrosis, erosion, secretion, etc.