An inquest was held, yesterday, by Coroner Young, in the case of Mrs. Bridget May, who died recently at No. 28 New Chambersstreet, from the effect of carbolic acid left in her apartments by a ...

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It doubles the amount of poison which manufacturers are required ... and is killed by using it he is a martyr. But if he buys carbolic acid and drinks it he is merely a suicide. . . . “In ...

Fed to laboratory animals in small doses, DDT produced poisoning symptoms like those from carbolic acid. It excited the animals’ central nervous system, gave them the shivers, paralyzed their ...

Roe proclaimed that the contents of his device – a white substance known as carbolic acid – would prevent its users from contracting influenza. According to its patent, when the ball was ...

Germ theory explained common causes of death It stems from the discovery by a Viennese doctor, Ignaz Semmelweis, in 1847, who realised a colleague had died from puerperal sepsis - blood poisoning ...

This consisted in swabbing the wound with undiluted carbolic acid (a crude and impure preparation at that time) and covering it with lint saturated with the same substance, over which a piece of ...