Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The trade-name of two different commercial products: Pearson's creolin, a mixture of coal-tar hydrocarbons (and probably phenols) with resin soap;
- noun Artmann's creolin, a mixture of coal-tar hydrocarbons with cresol-sulphonic acid. They are used as antiseptic washes.
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- noun A fraction of
coal tar containingcresols .
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Examples
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The wound was irrigated three times daily with 1-300 creolin lotion, but remained very foul.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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Procuring creolin, we rubbed it on our bodies pure; it should have been adulterated.
S.O.S. Stand to! Reginald Grant
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Earth closets and privy vaults should be treated with lime, crude creolin or crude carbolic acid at frequent intervals.
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During the summer time all open vaults and dry closets should be treated continuously with lime, crude creolin or crude carbolic acid, and they should be carefully cleaned out at frequent intervals.
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The solution to be used is preferably lysol, creolin, or carbolic acid.
The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) Kenelm Winslow
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The discarded underclothing is first steeped in a solution of creolin, or other coal-tar disinfectant, for some hours, and then passes through the hands of a staff of women of the country, who wash and laundry it, passing it on to another staff of darners and menders.
War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps John George 1918
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Adametz [196] added to green cheese various disinfectants, as creolin and thymol, and found that this practically stopped the curing process.
Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying 1910
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-- Medicines are often administered to our hair-covered animals by the skin, yet care must be taken in applying some medicines -- as tobacco water, carbolic-acid solutions, strong creolin solutions, mercurial ointment, etc. -- over the entire body, as poisoning and death follow in some instances from absorption through the skin.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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If there is much flatulency accompanying diarrhea baking soda or other alkaline medicines may effect a cure, while if the discharges have a very disagreeable odor it may be corrected by 1 ounce of sulphite of soda or dram doses of creolin in water, repeated twice a day.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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If putrid feed has been consumed, creolin may be administered in doses of 2 drams, mixed with 1 pint of warm water or milk.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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