carbolic acid in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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All the streets of the city have been washed with carbolic acid.
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This experimentation lead to using carbolic acid to clean instruments and hands before and after surgery.
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His medical practice was a consequence of his severe allergy to carbolic acid routinely used in operating rooms of the era.
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It found no signs of violence and no poison (cyanides, alkaloids, barbiturates, or carbolic acid) in his system.
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It is noted during one cholera outbreak he distributed his stock of carbolic acid free of charge.
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He appeared to have poisoned her with carbolic acid, which he gave her instead of the medication she should have been taking for her illness.
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It was filled with carbolic acid (or phenol).
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Buckets of carbolic acid were kept standing open in the sluicing room so that the nurses could take it by the jugful.
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Caused by rubbing carbolic acid on the skin of the hands and feet until they bled.
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It is carbonic acid, not carbolic acid.
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