Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Jan.,  1890. 
Antiseptic  Value  of  Chemical  Preparations. 
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experiments  on  the  mercury  salts  and  other  antiseptics.  It  is  impos- 
sible to  give  these  in  small  compass.  The  accompanying  tables  give 
his  chief  results  : 
TABLE  I. 
PREPARATIONS  OP  MERCURY. 
0  1  per  cent.  Solutions  in  distilled  water. 
1.  Merc.  Chi.  Hg  Cl2  
2.  1  Merc.  Chi.  +  10  Sod.  Chlor.  HgCl2  +  lONaCl... 
3.  1  Merc.  Chi. +3  Sal  Amnion.  HgCl2  f3  NH4C1.... 
4.  1  Merc.  Chl.  +  £  Pot.  Cyan.  HgCl.+^KCy   
5.  1  Merc.  Chl.+l  Pot.  Cyan.  HgCL+KCy  
6.  1  Merc.  Chi. +2  Pot.  Cyan.  HgCl2+2  KCy  
7.  1  Merc.  Chi.  +  5  Tartaric  Acid  (Laplace's  solu- 
tion) HgCl2+ C4H606  
8.  Merc.  Cyanid  HgCy2   
9.  Merc.  Cyanid  and  Pot.  (E.  Merck's  crystallized 
solution)  HgCy^  (KCy)2  
10.  Merc.  Oxycyanide  (prepared  by  Kahlbaum)  HgO 
HgCyx  
11.  Merc,  and  Pot.  Iod.  (Nessler's  Reagent)  Hgl2 
2KI  
12.  Merc.  Formamide  (Lieberich's  solution)  HgO  dis- 
solved in  a  watery  solution  of  Formamide... 
13.  1  Merc.  Sozoiodol  (prepared  by  TrommsdorffJ 
+2  Sod.  Chi  
14.  1  Merc.  Sozoiodol+3  Pot.  Iod  
I. 
Stoppage  of 
developm'nt 
reckoned  by 
HgKl2. 
II. 
Stoppage  of 
developmn't 
reckoned  by 
Hg. 
10,000 
15,000 
12,000 
12,000 
15,000 
18,000 
8,000 
18,000 
24,000 
20,000) 
16,000. 
20,000 
10,000 
6,000 
10,000) 
1  :  13,300 
20,000 
16,000 
16,000 
1  :  20,000 
1  :  24,000 
11,000 
24,000' 
32,000 
1  :  20,000' 
1  :  25,000 
1  :  13,000 
1  :  18,000' 
1  :  30,000; 
TABLE  II. 
Stoppage  development. 
Over  1  :  40,000  Cyanine;  malachite  green. 
Over  1  :  30,000  Silver  iodide,  chloride  and  cyanide,  dissolved  in  potas- 
sium cyanide ;  silver  nitrate. 
Over  1  :  25,000  Saffranin. 
Over  1  :  20,000  Mercuric  cyanide. 
Over  1  : 10,000  Mercury  _  preparation  of  Table  I;  gold  preparations  (?) ; 
fluoride  of  antimony  and  sodium. 
Over  1  :  1,500  Iodine  trichloride;  saturated  solution  of  soda  ;■  platinie 
cyanide  of  potassium;  hydroxylaminic  acid;  cadav- 
erine. 
Over  1  :  500  Quinine  ;    turpentine  ;  zinc  iodide  :    piperidine  ;  acid 
quinine    sulphate ;   carbolic    acid ;    iodo  iodide  of 
potassium. 
Over  1  :  250  Oxalic  acid;  kreasote  and  thymol  from  alcoholic  solutions. 
Over  1 : 150  Urethane  •  paraldehyde  ;  chloral  hydrate ;  sodium  salicyl- 
ate ;  eucalyptus  oil ;  potassium  carbonate  ;  potassium 
bicarbonate;  kreolin  (Pearson): 
Under  1  : 100  Sodium  iodide  ;  kreolin  (Artmann) ;  ether. 
1  : 15  Alcohol. 
