Show injuries from Car carbolic bollo acid warnings aro are given in a german medical journal against tho the injury to skin and een bone which may result from tho the long continued use of weak say 3 2 or even 2 per cent carbo lazed applications especially upon peripheral portions of the body such as the fingers this effect it is asserted isano is duo in a small measure to the action of carbolic acid upon tho the vasomotor system but in the main to its destructive effect upon tho the red ad 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 bo be continued then in the larger veins and arteries with the result that the nutrition 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 gan gangrene greno is a dry one a mummification as it were |