The cresols form an oily liquid largely used for disinfecting purposes under the designation of "liquid carbolic acid," or "cresylic acid.
Finally, the dead or dying maggots may be removed with forceps, the wound washed with a weak carbolic or cresylic acid solution, and painted with pine tar to reduce the chances of further attack by flies.
Finally the wound should be dressed with a carbolic or cresylic ointment to promote healing and thus prevent further infection, or the wound may be painted with pine tar.
The next portion consists of anhydrous cresylic and carbolic acids, and 625 volumes are distilled over; the remainder in the retort consists wholly of cresylic acid and the higher homologues.
The relative proportions of carbolic and cresylic acids are approximately determined by taking the solidifying point, which should be between 15.
Creasote, in its reactions with sulphuric and nitric acid, bromine and gelatin, is similar to carbolic and cresylic acids, and its solubility in most solvents is also similar.
In the inferior carbolic acid soaps there is little or no carbolic acid, but cresylic takes its place.
I am informed by Dr Calvert that cresylic acid has much less coagulating power on albumen than carbolic acid, and my own experiments entirely confirm this statement.
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