carbolic

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  1. Pertaining to or derived from carbon or coal.
  2. Carbolic acid a substance (C6H5OH) found in that part of the heavy oil of coal-tar which distils over between 329° and 374° F. From this product of coal-tar it is almost exclusively prepared. It has feeble acid properties, but in chemical structure is allied to the alcohols, and belongs to a class of compounds called phenols. When pure it crystallizes in white or colorless needles, which have the odor of creosote and a burning taste. They deliquesce readily and become liquid. It is an irritant poison when taken in large doses, but in doses of from 1 to 3 grains it is used internally as a therapeutic agent. Its chief medicinal use, however, is as a disinfectant in antiseptic surgery, and as an external application to unhealthy sores, compound fractures, abscesses after they have been opened, and tissues that are exposed as a result of surgical operations. The action of the acid is not only to exclude germs that induce putrefaction, but also to destroy such as may have been admitted, for which reason it is introduced into the interior of the wound. Also called phenic acid.
  3. Carbolic-acid paper wrapping-paper saturated with stearin and carbolic acid, used for preserving meats, etc.

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  • They had reached the station and he led them into its austere carbolic-scented interior and through to the C.I.D. room and his own modest office beyond. —  The Tiger In The Smoke - Allingham, Margery - Albert Campion 15
  • Leithen sat in his little room at the hospital, which smelt of ether and carbolic, and they talked like two old soldiers. —  SICK HEART RIVER
  • Now it reeked of ether and carbolic, and in a corner stood a trestle table covered with a coarse linen cloth. —  SICK HEART RIVER
  • The animal, a few minutes before on the verge of death from suffocation, emitting a loud wheezing sound with every breath, with haggard countenance, body swaying, pawing, gasping, fighting for breath, now breathes tranquilly, and may be in search of something to eat The tube should be removed once a day and cleaned with carbolic-acid solution (1 to 20), and the discharge washed away from the wound with a solution of carbolic acid, 1 part to 40 parts water. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • Several times a day the hand should be held over the opening in the tube to test the animal's ability to breathe through the nostrils, and as soon as it is demonstrated that breathing can be performed in the natural way the tube should be removed, the wound thoroughly cleansed with carbolic-acid solution (1 to 40), and closed by inserting four or five stitches through the skin and muscle. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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