Joseph Lister published a paper with results announcing his antiseptic system in The Lancet. What followed was a series of ...

For over a century, historians have concluded that much of Muncie’s gas boom-era open vice was concentrated in a red-light ...

Last week, came the announce-ment that they had found and tested such a germicide-hexylresorcinol, 50 times as powerful as carbolic acid. Dr. Leonard began his experiments with carbolic acid ...

The common salt is a necessary consti-;uent of the blood, and the water and carbolic acid are dissipated by the heat of baking; ;he latter being retained by the pores or vesi-:les of the bread ...

in which he introduced the use of carbolic acid (phenol) as an antiseptic. This breakthrough significantly reduced the incidence of post-operative infections, marking a turning point in surgical ...

To kill cockroaches take carbolic acid and powdered camphor in equal parts; put them in a bottle ; they v; ill become fluid. With a painters brush of the size called a sash tool, put the mixture ...

If not strychnine, some snake-handling churches keep a flask of carbolic acid at the altar instead. Wolford, 44, died May 27, about eight hours after being bitten by one of his poisonous yellow timber ...

John Haigh believed he had concocted the "perfect murder," until forensic science caught up to him in 1949 Sean Neumann is a reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2019.