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Arch Ophthalmol. 2007;125(6):764.

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Still we hold conflicting views, perhaps because they are many of them founded, not on rigid investigation and experiment, but, as is often unavoidable, on more or less hasty impressions and on prejudice. I may as well say, to begin with, that my prejudice was in favor of boiling alkaline solutions for sterilizing instruments, and that my experiments were undertaken to see if the objection brought forward against this method were well founded. My preference for this was founded, of course, on the overwhelming weight of evidence accumulated by general surgeons from Schimmelbusch down.

Reference: Lancaster WB. The sterilization and care of instruments. Arch Ophthalmol. 1901;30:394.