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Initially welcomed as a new business by the struggling city, Baker touted his secret elixir involving corn silk, red clover, watermelon seeds, carbolic acid and alcohol.
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Jack Schnedler, Arkansas Online, 5 May 2025
Even later, in the 1860s, the British surgeon Joseph Lister introduced the first sterile silk sutures, cleaned of contaminants using a solution of carbolic acid.
—Amy Paturel, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2025
The Nazi guards then killed him with an injection of carbolic acid.
—Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 8 Dec. 2024
He was linked to the Cleveland Street male brothel scandal and the death of a suicidal chorus girl who swallowed carbolic acid.
—Jonathan Miles, Town & Country, 5 Sep. 2023
Chaotic scenes of firefighters using their spray pumps to cleanse the nation ensue, quarrels break out between officers and merchants, Turks and Christians alike refuse to be hosed with carbolic acid.
—Kaya Genç, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
Itching during the drying up of the pustules is almost completely controlled by a soft ointment of beeswax and sweet oil, with a little tannin, opium, and carbolic acid incorporated, which has, moreover, the advantage of rendering the smell less disagreeable.
—Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2021
At the time of his professorial appointment to Johns Hopkins Hospital, Halsted routinely relied on the use of antibacterial solutions of mercuric chloride and carbolic acid in the operating theatre.
—Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2015
Documents also list the death of a teacher, Mary Lila Jenks, who died of an opium overdose in 1905 and a son of the superintendent, a 3-year-old who died after drinking a bottle of carbolic acid.
—Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Aug. 2021
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Jack Schnedler, Arkansas Online, 5 May 2025
Even later, in the 1860s, the British surgeon Joseph Lister introduced the first sterile silk sutures, cleaned of contaminants using a solution of carbolic acid.
—Amy Paturel, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2025
The Nazi guards then killed him with an injection of carbolic acid.
—Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 8 Dec. 2024
He was linked to the Cleveland Street male brothel scandal and the death of a suicidal chorus girl who swallowed carbolic acid.
—Jonathan Miles, Town & Country, 5 Sep. 2023
Chaotic scenes of firefighters using their spray pumps to cleanse the nation ensue, quarrels break out between officers and merchants, Turks and Christians alike refuse to be hosed with carbolic acid.
—Kaya Genç, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
Itching during the drying up of the pustules is almost completely controlled by a soft ointment of beeswax and sweet oil, with a little tannin, opium, and carbolic acid incorporated, which has, moreover, the advantage of rendering the smell less disagreeable.
—Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2021
At the time of his professorial appointment to Johns Hopkins Hospital, Halsted routinely relied on the use of antibacterial solutions of mercuric chloride and carbolic acid in the operating theatre.
—Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2015
Documents also list the death of a teacher, Mary Lila Jenks, who died of an opium overdose in 1905 and a son of the superintendent, a 3-year-old who died after drinking a bottle of carbolic acid.
—Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Aug. 2021
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“Carbolic acid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carbolic%20acid. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.
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