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Device used for sterilizing clothes
Diagram of Serbian barrel disinfection device
Serbian barrel delousers, used in 1916 by the 2nd Australian Sanitary Section to kill lice in uniforms, blankets and so on.

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.

The Serbian barrel was pioneered by the British surgeon William Hunter during the 1915 typhus and relapsing fever epidemic in Serbia.

References

  1. U. S. Army Medical Service (1931). The Army Medical Bulletin. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 875.
  2. United States War Department (1944). Fumigation and Bath Company: War Department Technical Manual TM 10-645. p. 27.
  3. Eddie, Graeme D. (20 May 2015). "William Hunter (1861-1937) & the Order of St. Sava | Untold Stories". libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-13.
  4. 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. JSTOR 20310811.


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