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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 heat sterilization describes sterilization techniques that use hot water vapor as a sterilizing agent. Heating an article is one of the earliest forms of sterilization practiced. The various procedures used to perform moist heat sterilization pr ...
. The Serbian barrel was pioneered by the British surgeon William Hunter during the
1915 typhus and relapsing fever epidemic in Serbia In the early stages of the First World War, Serbia suffered an epidemic of typhus and relapsing fever. The epidemic first appeared in the late autumn of 1914, after the second Austrian offensive. By December the Austro-Hungarian troops were pushed ...
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