CARBOLIC-ACID ANTIDOTE

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 3, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 31.

CARBOLIC-ACID ANTIDOTE.

The recent discovery of Mr. Allen, a Dublin veterinary surgeon, that ordinary turpentine is an antidote to carbolic acid, is one of the most important discoveries which have resulted more or less from accident. Mr. Allen had in his establishment some horses which were suffering from carbolic poisoning, and he asked for oil to be given as an antidote. It was only the unexpected success of the treatment which caused it to be discovered that a happy mistake had been made, and that turpentine had been administered instead of oil. A few days later a blacksmith, who was unconscious from carbolic poisoning, was similarly treated, with satisfactory results.—Chicago News.