Show juries from carrollo Cir Car liolio lollo add acid warnings are given in a german medical journal against the injury to skin shin and even boue bone which m may a y r result 0 sult from the long continued use of weak say 82 8 ag or even 2 per cent carbo lazed applications application a especially upon peripheral portions of the body such as the fingers this effect it is asserted is due in a small measure to the action of carbolic acid upon the vasomotor system but in the main to its destructive effii effect upon the red and white blood corpuscles corpus cles this induces partly in a mechanical and partly in a chemical way stasis first in the capillaries capil laries and if the action of the drug be continued then in the tha larger veins and arteries with the result that the nutrition of the part is interfered r with and the removal of harmful substances hindered the maceration of the epidermis caused by the acid favors evaporation so eo that the gangrene is a dry one a mummification as it were |