CARBOLIC ACID.
Professor Billroth of Vienna warns once more against the imprudent use of carbolic a cid as follows : In the last months four cases have come to my notice where fingers with insignificant wounds have become gangrenous by foolish application of car bolic acid. All those four cases were children whose parents had prescribed a carbolic acid bandage by their own authority, because carbolic acid was said to be good for healing wounds. The use of carbolic acid is much more limited in surgery than before ; it is only by degrees we have known the dangers it may present. This remedy may not only cause inflammations and gangrene, it may kill by blood poisoning. Its good qualities are developed only in the hand of a competent physician. I dissuade most emphatically the application of carbolic acid without the prescription of a physician. I recommend as the best bandage for fresh wounds acetate of lead (lead water), which is for sale in all drug stores.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 456, 22 March 1890, Page 6
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165CARBOLIC ACID. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 456, 22 March 1890, Page 6
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