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of  New  York,  in  June,  1872,  for  the  manufacture  of  a  "  new  and 
useful  product  from  petroleum,  named  vaseline."  This  name  was 
originally  applied  only  to  a  semisolid  preparation,  but  later  a  liquid 
product  known  as  liquid  vaseline  was  marketed  and  for  a  time  ex- 
ploited as  a  cure  for  coughs,  colds,  consumption,  and  a  number  of 
other  diseases  and  conditions. 
The  liquid  petrolatum  has  since  become  known  under  a  variety 
of  names,  proprietary  and  otherwise,  in  addition  to  being  used  as  a 
substitute  or  an  adulterant  for  other,  more  costly,  fats  and  oils. 
Some  of  the  names  applied  to  the  product  are : 
Adepsine  oil 
Neutralol 
Amilee 
Olo 
Atoleine 
Paraffin  oil 
Atolin 
Paroline 
Blandine 
Petro 
Crysmalin 
Petrolax 
Deeline 
Petrolia 
Glyco 
Petrolol 
Glycoline 
Petronol 
Glymol 
Petrosio 
Heavy  petroleum  oil 
Rock  oil 
Liquid  albolene 
Russian  liquid  petrolatum 
Liquid  cosmoline 
Russian  mineral  oil 
Liquid  fossiline 
Russian  paraffin  oil 
Liquid  geoline 
Russol 
Liquid  paraffin 
Saxol 
Liquid  petrolatum 
Terralbolia 
Liquid  saxoline 
Terraline 
Liquid  vaseline 
Usoline 
Mineral  glycerin 
Water-white  mineral  oil 
Mineral  oil 
White  paraffin  oil 
A  preparation  similar  to  that  official  in  the  Pharmacopoeia  of 
the  United  States  as  liquid  petrolatum  has  been  included  in  many, 
if  not  all,  of  the  foreign  pharmacopoeias,  the  official  title  under  which 
this  preparation  is  recognized  being  as  follows : 
Petrolatum  liquidum,  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia ;  Paraffinum  liquidum, 
pharmacopoeias  of  Great  Britain,  Germany,  the  Netherlands,  Japan, 
Belgium,  Austria,  Denmark,  Switzerland,  Sweden,  Servia,  Italy, 
Hungary  and  Russia ;  Oleum  Paraffinse,  Spanish  Pharmacopoeia ; 
Vaselinum  liquidum,  French  Pharmacopoeia,  and  Oleum  vaselini 
(as  a  synonym),  pharmacopoeias  of  Denmark  and  Russia. 
