Bridget May, who died recently at No. 28 New Chambersstreet, from the effect of carbolic acid left in her apartments by a Health Board employe, for disinfecting purposes, and which she swallowed ...

To resorcinol (very similar to carbolic acid) certain “fatty” acids were linked. The result was, at first, both an excellent antiseptic and a deadly poison. As the molecular proportion was ...

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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 ...

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Highly toxic phenol, also known as carbolic acid, released in a train crash last ... Health authorities said there is a threat of a “mass poisoning” of the local population.