Words similar to carbolic

Example sentences for: carbolic

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Joseph Lister pioneered the use of carbolic acid to keep wounds clean, and James Young Simpson experimented with chloroform as an anesthetic.
William Ernest Henley had tuberculosis of the bone, was hospitalized for years and treated by Lord Lister himself with, I believe, scraping of the bone, and whatever primitive antisepsis was used in those days, probably carbolic acid.