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Show CARBOLIC ACID; SOLUTIONS. Their Destructive Action Tpnn the Skiu AM.i u I sell Long Time. Popular Science News notes a warning by A. Frankenburger against the injury to the skiu and even bone which may result from the long continued application of weak (3, and even 2 per cent.) carbolized applications, especially upon peripheral portions of the body, slich as the lingers. This effect is due in a small measu re to the action of carbolic acid upon the vase 'notor system, but in the ina:n to its destruetiva 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 and, if the action of the drug be continued, then in the larger veins and arteries, with the result that the nutrition nutri-tion of the part is interfered with and the removal of harmful substances hindered. The maceration of the epidermis caused by the acid favors evaporation, so that the gangrene is a dry one, a mummification as it were. The author jbelieves that even weak carbolic solutions' as external applications appli-cations are to be either completely discarded discard-ed or to be used only with the very strictest strict-est precautions, and that the sale of carbolic car-bolic water by druggists should be wholly stopped. ' |
