who killed herself with carbolic acid, surely ought to stir this community to action in regard to the sale of that poison and the passage of a law restricting its sale to properly prepared ...

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He read about Pasteur’s work on germ theory. He experimented using a chemical, carbolic acid, to soak bandages before applying them to a wound. He found that it prevented infection and helped ...

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An example of a machine used by Lister to spray carbolic acid into the air when he was carrying out an operation This proved that antiseptic surgery significantly reduced the risk of infection ...

Disinfection campaigns were the order of the day. In some places they ran carbolic acid through sewers, actually spreading the disease faster because it flushed out rats that had lived there.

Its source was a bottle of phenol (carbolic acid), which made the treatment both painful and dangerous. For almost 20 years, Cora Galenti, 64, had got away with it while Hollywood buzzed with talk ...

He began spraying carbolic acid, or phenol, on compound fracture wounds, in which a broken bone pierced the skin – injuries with very high rates of morbidity and mortality, which were usually ...