ON CARBOLIC ACID AS AN ANTIPYRETIC.

Acetic Acid an Antidote to Carbolic Acid

Silt,?I have the honour to ask you to publish tho followingnote on the uso of acetic acid as an antidote to carbolic acid. Once when I was cleaning a wound I had to dip my hand over and over again into carbolic lotion (1 in 40), and L soon found a painful sensation in my arm from fingers to shoulder joint. I then found that I had a scratch on my finger. [ applied some acetic acid on a piece of ...

Creasote as an Antipyretic

Gurkha Rifles, age 24, was admitted into hospital on 21st October, with lobar pneumonia of the right lung. On the first two days the evening temperature was 103?, but at 4-30 p.m. on the third day it had risen to 104? (pulse 108, respiration 36). Creasote was applied to the abdomen at 5 P.M., and at 6-30 p.m. the temperature had fallen to 100? (pulse 80, respiration 18). Next morning, at 7 a.m....

Carbolic Acid in Whooping Cough

a letter from Dr. Cole, New-Zealand, suggesting the internal use of Carbolic Acid in whooping cough, and having two cases at the time under my care, I was induced to try the remedy which in both acted as a " specific." Case I.?A little girl jet. two years. The acid was administered in ? grain doses with Glycerine every two hours ; at the end of 24 hours the symptoms were much less severe, and t...

Carbolic Acid and Scorpion Stings

Carbolic Acid in Small-Pox

Attracted by this letter, Dr. D. McEwen, an intelligent Assistant Surgeon, Her Majesty's British Forces, in medical charge of the Artillery at Saugcr, determined to make use of the agent in eruptive fevers, and he has kindly favored me, for publication in the Indian Medical Gazette, with the particulars of a case of small-pox in an officer of the Royal Artillery, where the physiological effect ...