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ment of accidental and surgical wounds, skin affections, 

 and diarrhoea. 



DOSES, etc. Creolin, horses and cattle, f3ij- ^ f3 y i- > 

 dogs, fl\v. to fl\xx. ; calves, sheep, and pigs, fl\xxx. to H\lx., 

 in five to ten ounces of water. For external purposes, one 

 to five parts are mixed with a hundred of water, solution 

 being facilitated by addition of a little glycerin or soft soap. 

 As a dry dressing it is used with boric acid, zinc oxide, or 

 kaolin. Creolin solutions lose their efficacy when long kept, 

 and hence should be made up fresh every week. For mange 

 or scab Frohner advises the dressing of the worst parts with 

 a lotion of one part each of creolin and methylated spirit 

 and eight parts of soap, and subsequently placing the 

 patient for two or three minutes in a bath of two or two and 

 a half per cent, of creolin, and, if necessary, repeating the 

 treatment in a week. 



Cyllin is a non-toxic antiseptic, containing about sixty 

 per cent, of oxidised hydrocarbons, free of phenol, emulsi- 

 fied with neutral tar oil. Solutions of one to two hundred 

 of water are employed for operation wounds, and a solution 

 of one to four hundred of water for mucous membranes. 

 It is often prescribed as an intestinal antiseptic. 



Lysol, stated to be the product of a solution of tar oils in 

 a neutral soap, is a clear, brown, syrupy liquid, containing 

 about 50 per cent, of cresols. Mixed with water it forms a 

 clear, saponaceous liquid. Cadeac, Guinard, and others 

 state that as an antiseptic it is more powerful than carbolic 

 acid. A one or two per cent, aqueous solution is used as 

 a wound dressing, as a bath for instruments and ligatures 

 and for disinfection of the hands. A one per cent, solution 

 has been prescribed as a vermicide, especially for strongyles, 

 and as an udder injection in parturient toxaemia ; and a 

 three per cent, solution is serviceable as a dressing for 

 parasitic affections of the skin. Izal is said to consist of 

 an emulsion containing 40 per cent, of a tar oil produced 

 by a special process in the manufacture of coke. A solu- 

 tion of one part in two hundred of water is used as a 

 disinfectant and antiseptic. Solutol, an alkaline solution 

 of sodium cresol, and Solveol, a solution of cresol in sodium 

 cresotate, are used as disinfectants. Solutol is unsuitable 





