In one case the pleural cavity was washed out with a five per cent solution of boric acid and was followed by distressing symptoms, vomiting, weak pulse, erythema, and death on the third day.
Ordinarily speaking, the effect of boric acid in medicinal doses on the human system is nil, an exceptionally large quantity causing diuresis.
Hogner mentions two instances of death from the employment of 2 1/2 per cent solution of boric acid in washing out a dilated stomach The symptoms were quite similar to those mentioned by Molodenkow.
Molodenkow mentions two fatal cases from the external employment of boric acid as an antiseptic.
Tumbler for boric acid solution for washing baby's eyes, with fine old linen sterilized.
Before each nursing the nipples should be carefully washed off with a solution ofboric acid.
Immediately after each nursing the nipples should be washed off in a saturated solution of boric acid in cold water, and dried with a soft cloth.
The supply of borax is, however, mainly derived from the boric acid of Tuscany, which is fused in a reverberatory furnace with half its weight of sodium carbonate, and the mass after cooling is extracted with warm water.
The boron contained in solution in the salt lakes has very probably been supplied by hot springs and solfataras of volcanic origin, such as those which at the present day charge the waters of the lagoons in Tuscany with boric acid.
An alternative method is to dissolve sodium carbonate in lead-lined steam-heated pans, and add the boric acid gradually; the solution then being concentrated until the borax crystallizes.
After each feeding the mouth should be washed with a saturated solution of boric acid in boiled water.
In order to reduce the inflammation and cure the condition apply equal parts of starch and boric acid powder freely.
They should be pressed out and a gauze dressing, wet with a saturated solution of boric acid, bound over them.
On the contrary, however, it is an acid salt containing an excess of boric acid over the soda present, hence when it is added to soap, fatty acids are necessarily liberated, causing the soap to quickly become rancid.
The amount of the boric acid radicle may be determined by incinerating 5-10 grammes of soap, extracting with hot dilute acid, filtering, neutralising this solution to methyl orange, and boiling to expel carbon dioxide.
This is then dried in the water-oven, when if any boric acid compound is present, a bright reddish-pink stain is produced on the paper, which is turned blue on moistening with dilute alkali.
Boric acid possesses the defects of borax in a greater degree, and would, of course, simply form sodium borate with liberation of fatty acids, so should never be added to a neutral soap.
The presence of preservatives, salicylic and boric acids, the benzoates, etc.
Owing to the rapid color changes and early decomposition of fresh meat, artificial colors are often used to conceal the former, and preservatives like boric acid or saltpeter to retard the latter.
The preservatives sometimes used, namely, boric and salicylic acids and formaldehyde, can only be detected by chemical tests.
The ones most commonly used are boric and salicylic acids and formaldehyde; the two former can only be detected by chemical tests too delicate and intricate to be used by the housewife.
Wash with a weak solution of corrosive sublimate (one tablet for surgical purposes in two quarts of warm water) and apply an ointment of boric acid and vaseline, equal parts, spread on soft, clean cotton or linen.
An ointment made of equal parts of boric acid and vaseline, spread thickly on clean cloth, is a good antiseptic preparation in cases where the skin is broken.
If the foreign body has caused a good deal of irritation before its removal, it is best to drop into the eye a solution of boric acid (ten grains to the ounce of water) four times daily.
A solution of boric acid (ten grains of boric acid to the ounce of water) is to be dropped in both eyes every two hours with a medicine dropper.
When the surface skin is scraped off, as often happens to the shin, knee, or head, an ointment containing sixty grains of boric acid to the ounce of vaseline makes a good application, and this may be covered with a bandage.
Apply Carron oil or paste of boric acid and vaseline, equal parts.
If skin is broken, or raw surface is exposed, spread over it paste of equal parts of boric acid and vaseline, and bandage over all.
Then the raw surface is dusted over with pure boric acid or aristol, and the boric-acid ointment applied as before.
If the wound is small, and there is no discharge from it, it may be painted with collodion or covered with boric-acid ointment (sixty grains of boric acid to the ounce of vaseline) after the first day.
Treatment consists of frequent soap-and-water washings, and the application of boric acid, resorcin, and corrosive sublimate lotions.
Hot-water applications and the use of an ointment made of two drachms cold cream and ten grains of boric acid are of advantage not only in reducing the resulting hyperæmia, but also in preventing suppuration and consequent scarring.
Verruca acuminata is to be treated by maintaining absolute cleanliness, and the application of such astringents as liquor plumbi subacetatis, tincture of iron, powdered alum and boric acid.
For this purpose a boric acid solution, containing five to thirty grains of resorcin to the ounce, and Vleminckx's solution, at first diluted, prove the most valuable.
Iodol may also be applied to ulcers as a dusting-powder, usually mixed with one to several parts of zinc oxide or boric acid.
A saturated solution of boric acid or a lotion of corrosive sublimate (one to three grains to the ounce) applied to the immediate neighborhood of the boil or boils tends to prevent the formation of new lesions.
In itching cases, a saturated solution of boric acid, or a carbolic-acid lotion, one to two drachms to the pint, is to be employed for general application.
It is energetically decomposed by water, with formation of boric acid and liberation of hydrogen selenide.
When slightly warmed in oxygen it inflames, the combustion being rendered very beautiful by the fumes of boric and phosphoric anhydrides and the violet vapors of iodine.
Sulphuric acid decomposes it upon warming, without formation of sulphurous and boric acids and free iodine.
The crystals are violently decomposed by water, yielding a clear solution of boric acid, sulphureted hydrogen being evolved.
These are volcanic exhalations, in which jets of steam carrying boric acid and various borates, together with ammonium compounds, emerge from vents in the ground.
Whether they are due to magmatic solutions carrying boric acid from the associated flows, or to surface waters carrying materials leached from other sediments, is not clear.
Small quantities of boric acid are imported, but no borax in recent years.
Other uses of borax or of boric acid are as a flux in the melting and purification of the precious metals, in decomposing chromite, in making glass, as a preservative, as an antiseptic, and as a cleansing agent.
The crude colemanite as mined carries an average of about 25 per cent B2O3; it is treated with soda in the manufacture of borax, or with sulphuric acid in making boric acid.
Wet the filter paper with a weak solution of boric acid to which a very little hydrochloric acid has been added.
If boric acid either free or combined is present, the turmeric paper will be turned to a cherry-red color.
BORIC ACID Pick apart into fine pieces about 25 or 50 grams of the lean meat and warm with a little water which has a few drops of hydrochloric acid in it.
Soak a piece of turmeric paper in the extract, and if boricacid is present the paper will be colored rose-red when it is dry.
Fish and oysters may be preserved with boric acid or borax.
Make an alcoholic extract of the sample and dip a piece of filter paper in it, and when dry draw it through a cold, saturated solution of boric acid in water.
Dip a piece of delicate turmeric paper in the solution; and if borax or boric acid is present, it will have a characteristic red color when dry.
Evaporate the other half to dryness and moisten with a solution of boric acid and dry on a steam bath.
For a purulent conjunctivitis which may sometimes result from the presence of pustules on the lids, the saturated solution of boric acid should be frequently used in the form of a spray.
If preferred, a cold solution of boric acid may be used in place of plain water, and when there is an excessive and unpleasant odor present, thymol may be added to the solution.
Defn: A binary compound of nitrogen with a more metallic element or radical; as, boric nitride.
Defn: Native boric acid, found in saline incrustations on the borders of hot springs near Sasso, in the territory of Florence.
In order to prevent solution of the casts the urine, if alkaline, must be rendered acid by previous administration of boric acid or other drugs.
Decomposition may be delayed by adding five grains of boricacid (as much of the powder as can be heaped upon a ten-cent piece) for each four ounces of urine.
Milk is preserved with all kinds of substances, chiefly boric acid, and at one time, formalin; butter and hams with boric acid; and jams with salicylic acid and similar compounds.
A little boric acid in ham probably interferes much less with the digestion than an excess of salt, but it is right that the consumer should be given his choice of spoiling his own digestion in the way that pleases him best.
Of course, there are many antiseptic substances for washing wounds: potash and borax are good, especially in the form of potassium permanganate and boric acid.
Native boric acid, found in saline incrustations on the borders of hot springs near Sasso, in the territory of Florence.
That the only preservative permitted to be used in butter and margarine be boric acid, or mixtures of boric acid and borax, to be used in proportions not exceeding 0.
The limit of boric preservative that might be permitted, but which is nearly always exceeded, is one-quarter of 1%.
To enable this perishable article to be kept in a grocery store it has to receive an addition of preservative, as a rule boric preservative, in excessive amount.
That the only preservative which it shall be lawful to use in cream be boric acid, or mixtures of boric acid and borax, and in amount not exceeding 0.
Rosenheim upon children showed that neither boric acid nor borax, administered in doses of from 15 to 23 grains per diem, exerted any influence upon proteid metabolism or upon the assimilation of phosphatized materials.
The preservative was given in the forms of borax and of boric acid, at first mixed with butter, but subsequently in gelatine capsules.
A preservative, boric acid, is added by the manufacturer to restrain the bacteria, otherwise the extract would soon be unfit for use.
Borax, boric acid, and salicylic acid have also been used, but these substances must be employed in much larger quantities than formalin.
This treatment makes the milk keep without the use of preservatives, such as boric acid.
These should be carefully cleansed, dusted with boric acid, and covered with a layer of wadding bandage.
The poultices should be stopped as soon as the pain ceases, and the boil dressed as recommended above, dusted with pure boric acid and covered with clean absorbent cotton and bandage.
The boric acid may then be dropped from a medicine dropper, or applied upon a little wad of absorbent cotton, to the inner corner of the eye, while the eyelids are held apart.
On the scalp the hairs should be pulled out of the patch of ringworm, and each day it should be washed with soap and water and a solution of boric acid (as much acid as the water can dissolve), destroying the cloth used for washing.
Then a saturated solution of boric acid in water should be applied with a soft cloth, and the parts dusted with a mixture of boric acid and powdered starch, equal parts, three times daily.
Boric acid (sixteen grains to the ounce of water) is an absolutely harmless and serviceable agent for the removal of skin pigmentations.
If the substance contains boric acid, the alcohol will burn with a green flame.
If a precipitate forms, it is collected and subsequently examined for sulphuric, phosphoric, oxalic and boric acids as directed below.
If your feet perspire freely, powder them with boric acid powder, starch, and oxide of zinc in equal parts.
Boric anhydride is raised to a most vivid incandescence by fluorine, the experiment being rendered very beautiful by the abundant white fumes of the trifluoride which are liberated.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boric" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
