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recommending them for large foot baths or for any purpose 
where a large amount of antiseptic fluid is needed. 
The action of these products on water together with their 
innocuousness recommends them in obstetrical operations.— 
L.A.M] 
(g) SALICYLIC ACID. 
THIERSCH, in his efforts to discover a substitute for car- 
bolic acid, found in salicylic acid just discovered by KOLBE, a 
remedy with which he constructed a regular antisepsis. Now 
we know, specially owing to the recent investigations of SAM- 
TER that Salicylic acid is a totally unreliable antiseptic, so that 
this long since abandoned remedy will soon have but historical 
value. Now it exists only in the form of salicyl wadding for 
surgeons. 
(h) BORIC ACID. 
LISTER first recommended boric acid and experimented 
much with it, but it has never reached an important place as 
an antiseptic, as it acts much weaker than carbolic acid. It is 
applied in the form of: ~ 
(a) Powder or mixed with creolin (2 per cent.) as lycopo- 
dium on wounds, especially near the end of the healing process 
when it hastens the forming of the scar. 
(b) Boric water (4 per cent.) as wound water on such places 
where the virulence of carbolic acid and of the sublimate is 
feared, for instance, in the nose, in the mouth, on the eyes, etc., 
etc. 
Gi) ACETIC ALUMINA. 
Acetic alumina was first applied by BUROW and has been 
adopted on account of being non-poisonous and having good 
antiseptic properties. In every instance where the usual anti- 
septics cannot be made use of, either on account of virulence or 
because the patient cannot endure them, the liquor aluminae 
aceticae (8 per cent.) is indicated. In veterinary science this 
preparation has been in use for a long time (acetate of lead 
alum solution). It is applied in the form of: 
