Dakin's Solution
a preparation of sodium hypochlorite, containing boric acid. It is prepared by treating a solution of chlorinated lime with sodium carbonate, permitting the precipitated cal- D'ALEMBERT as an antiseptic and came into promi- nence during the World War, when it the clear liquor and neutralizing with boric acid. The resulting liquid is used as an antiseptic and came into prominence during the World War, when it was employed in the French military hospitals for irrigating wounds. The preparation was discovered by Berthollet in 1788, but was not commonly used until it was reintroduced by Doctor D. H.
Dakin of New York, while he was servindirectly ing as bacteriologist in France. The antiseptic action of the solution is one of oxidation, brought about either by the decomposition of the hypochlorite with formation of oxygen, through the formation of chloroamide groups. or DAKOTA. See NORTH DAKOTA; SOUTH DAKOTA.
SITY, an institution for higher educa- tion, founded at Mitchell, S. D., under the DAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVER- SITY, an institution for higher educaauspices of the Methodist Episcopal tion, founded at Mitchell, S. D., under the Church. It includes a College of Liberal Arts, and schools of commerce, education, elocution, and art. In 1919 there were 32 instructors and 538 students. President, W. D. Schermerhorn, S. T. B. He