Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1897 — Carbolic Acid. [ARTICLE]

Carbolic Acid.

Carbolic acid !s uow so generally employed for disinfecting purposes that familiarity is apt to breed contempt for its highly corrosive and poisonous qualities; hence the value of knowing of a gpod and easily obtained antidote to Its dangerous efforts. Prof. Carletpn states that vinegar applied to a cutaneous or mucous surface which has been burned by the acid will immediately give relief, the characteristic bleaching of the skin quickly disappearing, and subsequent scarring being to a large extent prevented. It is also useful when the poison has been taken internally; and, unfortunately, large numbers of lives are lost annually through carbolic acid poisoning—chiefly cases of suicide. For Internal administration the vinegar should be diluted with an equal quantity of water, and taken by the patient as soon as possible.