It is preferable to replace part of the thymolwith red thyme oil, the thymene of which imparts a sweeter odour to the soap than if produced with thymol alone.
In addition to the phenols, thymol or carvacrol, these oils contain cymene, thymene and pinene.
Thymol may be procured from either of the above sources by treatment with caustic potash or soda, as described below, or by submitting the essential oils to a low temperature for some days.
When thymol is to be used for lotions, injections, inhalations, or spray solutions, the Paris Pharmaceutical Society recommends 1 part of thymol to be dissolved in 4 parts of alcohol at 90 deg.
Dr Crocker, of University College Hospital, strongly recommends thymol lotion to be prepared with glycerin, which, he says, obviates the drying effect upon the skin produced by aqueous or spirituous solutions of the thymol alone.
Thymol was obtained in fine tubular crystals by Flueckiger and Hanbury, who exposed oil of ajowan to a temperature of 0 deg.
In the preparation of this ointment, it is of importance to first dissolve the thymol in a few drops of spirits, and then to mix it with the lard.
The neglect of this precaution causes the undissolved particles of thymolpresent in the ointment to act as a caustic irritant on the skin, and to eat little holes in it.
Large quantities of thymol are prepared in Germany, principally from the seeds of the Ptychotis ajowan.
As found in commerce, thymol consists of irregular broken crystals, nearly transparent and colourless; the taste is burning and aromatic, sp.
Another advantage possessed by thymol over carbolic acid is that the redness, vesication, and eczema, frequently induced when dressings of the latter agent are used, does not follow the application of thymol dressings.
When prepared by the first process thymol occurs as an oily fluid; and when by the second, as a crystalline solid.
According to Bucholz, thymol possesses ten times the septic power of carbolic acid, over which it also has the advantage of being non-poisonous, and of giving off an agreeable odour.
The thyme oil, peppermint oil and arnica tincture are brought into a bottle and the thymol is dissolved in the mixture.
Great care should, therefore, be exercised in the preparation of these thymol dentifrices.
For cleansing artificial teeth thymol tooth-water can be especially recommended.
The most celebrated physicians have long since recognized thymol as an antiseptic, it being much used in hospitals, and is frequently preferred to carbolic acid.
Moreover, the finished solution cannot be boiled without decomposing the adrenalin, and it is customary therefore to add thymol or Ol.
The volatile essential oil of Wild Thyme (as well as of Garden Thyme) consists of two hydrocarbons, with thymol as the fatty base, thisthymol being readily soluble in fats and oils when heated, and taking high modern rank as an antiseptic.
Against ringworm an ointment made with one drachm of thymol to an ounce of soft paraffin is found to be a sure specific.
The spirit of thymol should consist of one part of thymol to ten parts of spirit of wine; and this is a convenient form for use to medicate the wool of antiseptic respirators.
As a purifying and cleansing lotion for wounds and sores, thymolshould be mixed in the proportion of five grains thereof to an ounce of spirit of wine, an ounce of glycerine, and six ounces of water.
Thymol is valued by some authorities more highly even than carbolic acid for destroying the germs of disease, or for disinfecting them.
They have the odor of thymolor menthol and an acid taste and reaction.
Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry Arhovin is a solution of dephenylamine, thymol benzoate and ethyl benzoate, marketed by Schering and Glatz, Inc.
The best single test appears to be the reaction discovered by Magelhaes; this consists in adding thymol to a solution of cytisine in concentrated sulphuric acid, when a yellow colour, finally passing into an intense red, is produced.
The fluid is mixed with a little thymol and potash; if chloroform be present, a reddish-violet colour is developed, becoming more distinct on the application of heat.
It has been found that a small dose of a preparation of thyme known as thymol stupefies the parasites with which it comes in contact, so that they unloose their claws and are set free in the intestine after its use.
Sometimes, however, in long-continued cases the worms have penetrated so far into the membrane that the use of thymol cannot withdraw them.
The resultant solution is next dialyzed in running water until the ammonium salt is entirely removed, thymol being added to prevent putrefaction, after which the fluid is mixed with an equal volume of 0.
After a few minutes in all the rooms of the establishment there are smells of singed hair, boric-thymol soap, cheap eau-de- cologne.
Cohendy has investigated the effect on the intestinal flora of thymol which was administered in several cases with the object of destroying parasites.
From nine to twelve grammes of thymol were administered to each patient in the space of three days, and there was a notable antiseptic effect, Cohendy believing that the quantity of microbes had been reduced to a thirteenth.
A thymol or carbolized boric-acid lotion will relieve the irritation.
In bath-pruritus weak glycerine lotions, and an ointment containing a few grains of thymol and menthol to the ounce sometimes give moderate relief.
The clothing and bed-coverings are to be thoroughly baked or boiled, the pediculi and their ova being in this manner destroyed; a thymol or carbolized boric-acid lotion may be used to relieve the cutaneous irritation.
Treatment consists of applications of camphor or ammonia-water; carbolic acid and thymol lotions are also useful.
Thymol crystallizes in large colourless plates which melt at 44 deg.
Combined with chloroform, thymol or carbolic acid, it is a valuable local application for neuralgia and for toothache due to dental caries.
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