The cresols, creolin, lysol, and other solutions of the cresols are more germicidal than carbolic acid, and are sometimes used for the same purposes.
Carbolic acid is one of the most useful of these liquids, and in its various forms appears in almost all disinfectants.
To keep air away from wounds is an almost impossible task, and thus it came about that wounds were dressed with a solution of carbolic acid.
Carbolic acid has come into prominence as an antiseptic since its adoption by Lister in antiseptic surgery.
It is better then to trust to small doses of hydrocyanic or carbolic acid, aromatic spirit of ammonia, or bismuth.
Carbolic acid as ordinarily used is an antiseptic rather than a disinfectant.
One woman lost her life because the nurse placed two ounces of carbolic acid in the enema instead of two ounces of saline solution.
Acid chemical burns are treated with baking soda, except in the case of carbolic acid (misnamed), which is treated with alcohol; alkaline chemical burns are dressed in vinegar or lemon juice compresses.
The swallowing of carbolic acid should be quickly followed by diluted alcohol, and if this drug is not ready at hand many of the numerous alcoholic patent medicines will do just as well.
A suitable solution for this purpose is one containing one ounce of carbolic acid to the quart of water.
The discharges of the patient should be thoroughly disinfected in a solution of carbolic acid, 1-20.
The urine and the stools should be passed into vessels containing a solution of four ounces of carbolic acid to the gallon of water.
Carbolic acid is recommended, but Mr. Ashmead, who has kept a large collection in the moist climate of Florida, has found the use of naphthaline much more satisfactory.
Carbolic acid is another and much cheaper remedy proposed by the same author.
Of late, however, it has been partly superseded by sulphurous acid, carbolic acid, &c.
Carbolic acid, however weak, must not be used on the thin parts of the skin of small mammals or birds, as it dries and shrivels them up so quickly as to seriously interfere with subsequent modelling.
Elevate the part, and drench with carbolic solution (one teaspoonful of carbolic acid to one pint of hot water).
The stings are usually relieved by bathing with a two per cent solution of carbolic acid, with rum, or with lemon juice.
Carbolic acid is poisonous, and is a powerful antiseptic.
Wounds and bruises, whether the skin is broken or not, should be carefully bathed in warm water, three parts of carbolic acid to one hundred of water.
Or apply a dressing composed of one part of carbolic acid to twenty of oil or glycerine and keep there with a soft bandage around the pastern and heel.
Water, sufficient to make 1 gall or Rx Carbolic acid 5 oz.
Another good formula to use is the following: Rx Carbolic acid 5 oz.
Among the more familiar products of coal tar or petroleum are moth balls, carbolic acid, benzine, vaseline, and paraffine.
Carbolic acid, the bichloride of mercury, and formalin are the most efficient weapons against the dreaded microbe.
Lyddite, not patented, but believed to be substantially same as melinite, and containing for its active ingredient picric acid, which is a compound formed by the reaction of nitric acid on carbolic acid.
The personal linen and sheets of the patient should be placed incarbolic acid (1-40) in a slop-pail, and should be boiled before being sent to the laundry.
Carbolic acid is one of the most effective, needing, however, care in the handling, as it is very poisonous and in strong solution causes severe burns.
Expectoration should be received into a sputum-cup containing 1-20 carbolic acid, and all handkerchiefs when soiled should be similarly treated.
At an early stage in it the operator discovers such volatile poisons as prussic acid, chloroform, carbolic acid, and phosphorus, if any of them be present.
He can also tell if it is phosphorus or carbolic acid, by the smell.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carbolic acid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
