Note on the history of carbolic acid and its compounds in surgery prior to 1867 / by Sir J.Y. Simpson.

  • Simpson, James Young, 1811-1870.
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[1867]
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Credit: Note on the history of carbolic acid and its compounds in surgery prior to 1867 / by Sir J.Y. Simpson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    'L NOTE ON THE HISTOEY OF CAEBOLIC ACID AND ITS COMPOUNDS ^ IN SUEGEEY PEIOE TO 1867. By Sir J. Y. SIMPSON, Bart., M.D., D.C.L., &c. (From the Lancet for November 2, 1867.) The communication on the antiseptic properties of carbolic acid which Professor Lister published in the Lancet of the 21st of September 1867, Discussion was originally read by him at the meeting of the British Medical ^cidAn °'iC Association in August last at Dublin. In the discussion which fol- Dublin in lowed, Dr. Hingston of Montreal stated to the Surgical Section that, August ° ^ IC&7 in travelling last summer over the Continent, he had found that the use of carbolic acid in surgery was now being discontinued in places where formerly it was in vogue; while in Great Britain he had seen it poured into and over the surfaces of recent amputation, and other wounds, in the form of a fluid ointment or combined with oil, in a way which recalled to his mind the olden and reprehensible system of dressing with some foreign body the whole raw surfaces of recent J wounds—a practice that was followed two or three and which he fondly imagined was banished from scien But in 1863 Dr. Lemaire of Paris published an extensive and of Le; in a great diversity of surgical and medical diseases. A second edition of Dr. Lemaire’s work appeared in 1865, and extends to 750 pages. The book is entitled, De VAcide PMnique, de sun action sur 2d edition, les Vegetaux, les Animaux, les Ferments, les Venins, les Virus, les 1S65. Miasmes ; et de ses Applications a VIndustrie, a V Hygiene, ctux Sciences Anatomiques, et a la Thirapeutique. He enters fully into its chemi- cal and general history, and its numerous applications to sanitary science, veterinary practice, etc. Above 300 pages are devoted to its On the same occasion, amongst some other remarks —contrary to what Professor Lister seems inclined carbolic acid had been used for some years past in surg Germany, etc., and that his use and applications of it— of its mode of action—were not in any way original. able monograph on carbolic acid, or phenic acid (as it is more usually ^o^apli designated in French works), and described at length its employment 1863. maire s mo nograpli,