CARBOLIC ACID 
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SOAPS. S O P. 
“'The quantity of Soap consumed by a nation would be no inaccurate measure whereby 
to estimate its wealth and civilization. Of two countries with an equal amount of popu- 
lation, the wealthiest and most highly civilized will consume the greatest weight of soap. 
This consumption does not subserve sensual gratification, nor depend upon fashion , but 
upon the feeling of the beauty, comfort and welfare attendant upon cleanliness, and a 
regard to this feeling is coincident with wealth and civilization. The rich, in the middle 
ages, concealed a want of cleanliness in their clothes and persons under a profusion of 
costly scents and essences, while they were more luxurious in eating and drinking in 
apparel and horses. With us. a want of cleanliness is equivalent to insupportable misery 
and misfortune.”—Baron Liebig. 
CARBOLIC ACID. 
Xeb)=¥ortt: 
C. C. SHELLEY, STEAM BOOK AND JOB PRINTER, 68 BARCLAY STREET. 
1870. WHAT IS CARBOLIC ACID? 
Carbolic Acid in its pure state is a solid, and commonly 
has the form of very beautiful needle-shape and transpar- 
ent crystals. The crystals may be readily melted by heat, 
but on cooling the mass solidifies and has a crystaline frac- 
ture. The crystals have a great affnity for water, and on 
being exposed to the air they absorb in a few minutes suffi- 
cient water to dissolve them. But it is a very singular fact, 
that as soon as the crystals become liquid in this way, the 
solution has very much the character of an oil, for it has 
an oily consistency and does not readily dissolve in more 
water. M requires fifty drops of zvater to dissolve one drop 
of the liquid Carbolic Acid. 
HOW IT TASTES AND SMELLS. 
Carbolic Acid has a sharp biting taste and an odor re- 
sembling Creosote, but the odor is much milder and more 
pleasant than that of Creosote. On account of this simi- 
larity of odor and its antiseptic quality it is sometimes 
called mineral Creosote. Some have supposed that it con- 
tained Creosote, or was a modification of Creosote; this 
theory, however, has no good foundation in fact 
ITS NAME NOT A GOOD ONE. 
The name Carbolic Add is an unfortunate one, for it is 
not agreeable to the ear, and while it does not indicate 
of itself any real property of the substance to which it is 
applied, it really conveys a false idea. For Carbolic Acid 
is not sour nor caustic lilce ordinary Acids and does not 
respond to any usual tests of an Acid. It is, in fact, a 
neutral substance, and is best classified with Glycerine 
and Alcohol. 4 
WHERE IT COMES FROM. 
Carbolic Acid is one of the most important of the wonder- 
ful substances which are extracted .from Coal Tar. It is 
only a few years since that Coal Tar was proverbially use- 
less and offensive. Now, we ought to think of it kindly, 
when it furnishes the most gorgeous of the colors used by 
the dyer, delicate perfumes which every one admires, and 
finally, Carbolic Acid upon which the good health of the 
world in a great measure depends. 
ALL THE PHYSICIANS USE IT. 
Although Carbolic Acid has been publicly known for only 
four or five years, its great virtues have been discovered 
and put to use in every civilized land,. It has been 
adopted as if by acclamation by the medical faculty, and 
no intelligent physician can be found who has not pre- 
scribed it in his practice. To judge from the constant 
eulogies of Carbolic Acid which have filled the medical 
journals lately, one would suppose that the universal 
panacea, and even the elixir vitae has at last been found. 
IT IS NOT THE UNIVERSAL PANACEA. 
No doubt the enthusiasm of some of the friends of Car- 
bolic Acid have led them to exaggeration of its good 
qualities ; for it must be confessed that it. is by no means 
the universal panacea, and that flesh is heir to very 
many ills for which it can give no relief. Let us be 
thankful for the good which it justly offers us. 
THE FACTS IN A NUT SHELL. 
1 st.—Carbolic Acid is the universal disinfectant and 
antiseptic. 
2d.—For many cutaneous diseases, such as EXEMA, 
RING-WORM, SALT RHEUM, ITCH. &c., it is a 
prompt and efficient specific. 
3d.—It is a positive preventive in all cases of G*angrene, 
immediately arresting Mortification. 
4th.—It prevents and destroys all Insect Lift* 5 
5th—While it is powerful to do good, it is feeble in 
doing harm. It is in no respects a poison, and no person 
of ordinary intelligence would be in risk of being harmed 
by its proper use. . 
SOAP THE PERFECT VEHICLE. 
Scientific considerations confirmed by large experience 
under the greatest variety of circumstances prove, that 
the most suitable vehicle for Carbolic Acid when used 
externally is soap and saponaceous compounds, The Acid 
and the soap are mingled together m such a way that 
each serves to help the other. Thus, the soap acts as a 
gentle dilutant and preservative of the properties of the 
Acid, while the Acid, being the most powerful of all the 
solvents of grease, so materially adds to the detersive 
power of the soap, thatif the compound had no medi- 
cinal value it would still be preferred over any ordinary 
soap. 
WHAT IS CRESYLIC ACID? 
.. Cresylic Acid and Carbolic Acid are always found 
associated together in Coal Tar They are so like each 
other that one may be substituted for the other in practi- 
cal use ; yet, a careful comparison has shown that for some 
specific piirposes it is preferable to use the Cresylic Acid 
alone, or mixed with exact proportions of Carbolic Acid. The following extracts from a lecture delivered by Dr. F. 
Grace Calvert, F. R. S.. before the “ Society for the Encour- 
agement of National Industry ” in France, deserve notice : 
Carbolic or Pbenic Acid and its 
Properties. 
“ As to the value of Carbolic Acid for preventing the spread 
of cholera, among many instances which I could cite, 
allow me to mention two special instances : First, Dr. Ellis, 
of Bangor, says—I have, in many instances, allowed whole 
families to return to cottages in which persons had died from 
cholera, after having had the cottages well washed and 
cleansed with Carbolic Acid, and in no case were any persons 
allowed to enter such purified dwellings attacked with the 
disease. My friend, Professor Chandelon, of Liege, has stated 
to me, that out of one hundred and thirty-five nurses whp 
were employed to attend upon the cholera patients—and they 
must have been numerous, for two thousand died—only one 
nurse died, but the nurses were washed over and their cloth- 
ing sprinkled with Carbclic Acid. In fact, tlib' antiseptic 
properties of Carbolic Acid are so powerful, that l-1000th, or 
even l-1500th will prevent decomposition. 
Although questions of Public Health are the province of 
Medicine, still, permit me to say a few words on the medi- 
cinal properties of Carbolic Acid. This question deserves 
to be treated thoroughly, for Bhenic Acid is susceptible of 
so many applications in this direction, its properties are so 
marked, so evident, and so remarkable, that they cannot be 
made too public, and it is rendering A SERVICE TO 
MANKIND TO MAKE KNOWN SOME OF THE EMPLOY- 
MENTS OF SO VALUABLE A THERAPEUTIC AGENT. 
I wish all Who are listening to me were medical men ; for I 
Could show, by numerous and undeniable facts, the advantage 7 
they might derive from pure Carbolic or Phenic Acid, and if 
my testimony was not sufficient to convince them, I would 
invoke the authority of men justly esteemed amongst you. 
I would recall to you the words of the good and learned 
GRATIOLET, and those of Dr. LEMAIRE, showing that 
Carbolic Acid is the most powerful acknowledged means 
of contending with contagious and pestilential diseases, 
such as cholera, typhus fever, small pox, etc. Maladies 
of this order are very numerous, but in Carbolic Acid we 
And one of the most powerful agents for their prevention; 
for, besides many instances which have been cited to roe, I 
may add that I have often USED IT IN A FAMILY IN 
WHICH THERE WERE EIGHT OR TEN CHILDREN, 
AND THAT NONE OF THE FAMILY HAYE SUFFERED 
FROM THOSE DISEASES EXCEPT THOSE WHO WERE 
ATTACKED PREVIOUSLY TO THE EMPLOYMENT OF 
CARBOLIC ACID ABOUT THE DWELLINGS IN WHICH 
SUCH DISEASES EXISTED. 
Besides its antiseptic action, the caustic properties of Car- 
oolic Acid are found useful; most beneficial effects are obtained 
from it in the treatment of very dangerous and sometimes 
mortal complaints, such as Carbuncle, Quinsy, Diptheria, etc. 
as shown by Dr. Turner, of Manchester ; and also in less severe 
affections, such as hemorrhoids, internal and external fistulas, 
and other similar complaints. But what must be especially 
mentioned is the employment of Carbolic Acid in preserving 
in a healthy state certain foetid purulent sores, and preventing 
the repulsive odor which comes from them, an odor which is 
the symptom of a change in the tissues, and which often pre- 
sents the greatest danger to the patient. The services which 
Carbolic Acid renders to surgery can be judged of by reading 
several most interesting papers on compound fractures, ulcers, 
etc., lately published in the Lancet by J. Lister, F. R. S.; and 
allow me to draw your special attention to the following para- 
graphs which are to be found in his paper published in that 
journal of the 25th Sept., 1867 : li The material which I have 8 
employed is Carbolic or Phenic Acid, a volatile organic com- 
pound, which appears to exercise a peculiar destructive influ- 
ence upon low forms of life, and hence is the most powerful 
antiseptic with which we are at present acquainted. The first 
class of cases to which I applied it, was that ot compound 
fractures, in which the effects of decomposition in the injured 
part were especially striking and pernicious. The results have 
been such as to establish conclusively the great principle that 
all the local inflammatory mischief and febrile disturbance 
which follow severe injuries are due to the irritating and 
poisonous influences of decomposing blood or sloughs. These 
evils are entirely avoided by antiseptic treatment, so that 
limbs which otherwise would be unhesitatingly condemed to 
amputation may be retained with confidence of the best result. 
Since the antiseptic treatment has been brought into full 
operation, and wounds and abcesses no longer poison the 
atmosphere with putrid exhalations, my wards, though other- 
wise in precisely the same circumstances as before, have com- 
pletely changed their character; so that during the last nine 
months not a single instance of pyaemia, hospital gangrene or 
erysipelas, has occured in them.” My hearers can also wit- 
ness the same remarkable results by visiting the two sick wards 
of Dr. Maisonneuvr, at the Hotel Dieu. Further, I must not 
overlook the valuable application made of it to gangrene in 
hospitals by the eminent physician, James Paget, Esq.; and 
lastly, it has been used by many of the most eminent medical 
men with marked success in those scourges of humanity, 
phthisis and syphilis.” 
Since the discovery of the valuable properties of these acids 
much time and labor have been devoted to find the most effi- 
cient and effective mode of applying them in practice, numer- 
ous experiments were made by diluting with water, oils, fats, 
grease, etc., none of which gave such good results as when 
the acids are combined with an Alkali. This led to their 
combination in a saponaceous form, for which letters patent 
of the United States have been secured. 9 
License for manufacturing these compounds has been 
granted to JAMES BUCHAN & CO., of New York, who have 
the exclusive right to manufacture Carbolic and Cresylic Soaps 
in the United States:—their name and the date of the patent is 
on every package. In these soaps and saponaceous compounds 
both Carbolic and Cresylic Acids are used, and both names 
are retained as Trade Marks; they make a perfectly homo- 
genous solution with water, their great affinity rendering them 
entirely soluble and in this way any desired strength of solu- 
tion is obtained. 
Many unsolicited letters from all parts of the country 
testify to their valuable properties. 
Attention is called to the following description of the 
various compounds and their proper uses. 
Carbolic Laundry Soap. 
This is a pure article, containing no excess of Alkali, or free 
Alkali, which, in many of the soaps now sold is so destructive 
to clothing. It is combined with Carbolic and Cresylic Acids, 
by which its detergent properties are very largely increased, ren- 
dering it from fifty to one hundred per cent, more effective than 
the ordinary soaps of commerce. The increased effectiveness 
of this soap makes it actually a cheaper article than the 
ordinary family*soaps, and as it is invaluable to every family 
on account of its great disinfecting properties, its use should 
be universal as it is brought within the reach of the poorest. 
It very materially reduces the labor of a family. Hotels, 
Restaurants, Boarding Houses and Private Families will find 
this soap invaluable for washing dishes and keeping sinks 
free from grease. Bedding and clothing used by the sick, 
even from the most infectious diseases as small-pox, virulent 
fevers, etc., are completely disinfected by its use. When wash- 
ing, after the soap has done its cleansing work, the suds dis- 
tributed in water-closets, cesspools and other offensive places 
will instantly destroy all disagreeable odors, and it can be used 
on plants and trees to drive from them all injurious insects, etc. 10 
Persons living in crowded tenements would find their com- 
fort and health greatly increased by the use of this soap. 
Carbolic Toilet Soaps. 
These soaps are made from the choicest ingredients and are 
offered as a very superior article. Their valuable properties 
are greatly increased by the addition of the chemically pure 
acids. 
They are to a great degree preventive of infectious diseases, 
and their use in the nursery should be universal; they are val- 
uable in all cutaneous affections, prevent scalding, chafing and 
sore-head in infants. For chapped hands they are specially 
commended as superior to all the preparations of glycerine 
and camphor ice ; they keep the skin soft and smooth. For 
the bath they have peculiarly refreshing qualities. 
These soaps are known and sold as Medicated and Medicated 
Perfumed. 
Carbolic Medicinal Soap. 
This soap is made especially for Physicians’ and Surgeons’ 
use, and contains twenty-five per cent, of Carbolic and Cresvlic 
Acids; it may be prescribed by weight or in solution. Know- 
ing the difficulty of prescribing these acids, this sapona- 
ceous compound is offered as supplying a want long felt in 
the medical world. 
It is sold in four ounce tablets and marked as above. 
Carbolic Dental Soap. 
As a Dentifrice this compound is superior to any known 
preparation ; it is a perfectly neutral substance, prevents and 
stops decay in teeth, sweetens the breath and removes every 
disagreeable taste. 
Carbolic Shaving Soap. 
It produces a fine lather, prevents all irritation of the skin, 
keeping it soft and quickly healing any cuts or scratches from 11 
the razor; to those unfortunate enough to have the Barbers 
Itch, it affords immediate relief. 
Carbolic Marine Soap. 
This soap, combined with Carbolic Acid, is made expressly 
for washing in salt water. It is a sure preventive for Ship 
Fever, especially adapted for use on board vessels visiting in- 
fected ports. Should be universally used on vessels in warm 
climates, and on emigrant ships for scrubbing and washing 
clothes. Disinfecting, and at the same annihilating all insects 
and vermin, it is unsurpassed. The fact has been thoroughly 
proved that by the use of Carbolic Acid, vessels can visit ports 
where Yellow Fever prevails without any danger of contagion. 
Carbolic Disinfecting Soap. 
For washing horses, cattle, pigs, dogs, etc., to rid of and pro- 
tect them from vermin, is one of the most useful of all the 
carbolic compounds. It is in a convenient and cheap form 
and is indispensable to every stock raiser and owner. We 
have no hesitation in claiming remarkable qualities for this 
compound ; it will positively destroy all insect life on cattle, 
and cure Mange, scratches, and sores of all kinds. Being in 
the form of a regular soap it can be conveniently used at any 
time. Flies which so incessantly torment horses and cattle 
in stables and dairies will not disturb them if they are washed 
twice or thrice a week with this soap. 
Cresylic Ointment. 
For Destruction of the Screw Worm, and Cure of 
Foot Rot. 
For destruction of the Screw Worm it is the best of all 
remedies for that pest of the stockbreeder in the South ; and 
for washing galls and sores, whether mere scratches, or of the 
most gangrenous and offensive description ; for cracked hoofs, 
etc., in horses. 
TO THE SCREW WORM IT IS 
certain death, and is the cheapest and safest remedy ever 12 
applied. It not only destroys the worm, but cleanses and 
quickly heals up the offensive sores made by it. In ordinary 
cases, a piece of the ointment, as large as the first jointof the 
finger, pushed into the wound, will effect an immediate cure. 
But, in serious cases, best inject a solution two or three times, 
and then insert the ointment. It is rare that a second appli- 
cation will ever have to be made. Sheep, which rarely recover 
the attack of the worm under the ordinary treatment of calo- 
mel, liniment, etc., are quickly cured by this application. 
FOOT ROT. 
For this disease, now so prevalent in all sections of the country, 
this ointment is a safe and reliable remedy. Let the ani- 
mals to be treated have their feet thoroughly cleaned with 
a solution of one pound of ointment to eight gallons of 
water. Pare and cut away all of the diseased portion; 
but expose no more fresh surface than can be avoided. 
Anoint well with the ointment, and especially every diseased 
part, rubbing a little into the hair as high as the knee. Keep 
the animals in a dry clean pasture or lot for a few days, and 
a cure will not only be affected, but the animal guarded from 
re-infection for a considerable period. 
And in solution, one pound to 5 or 8 gallons of water; it is 
very EFFECTIVE IN RIDDING CATTLE, etc., of aU 
descriptions of insects; 
Cresylic Sheep-dip. 
That destructive disease in SHEEP, the SCAB, has become 
ruinously prevalent all over the country, and especially in the 
South. 
A very minute insect, so small as not to be seen with the 
naked eye, is the cause of this harrassing disease. 
If a sound sheep comes in contact with one which has scab, 
or with a tree or post against which a scabby sheep has rubbed 
itself, one or more of the female insects will instantly transfer 
themselves to the sound sheep, quickly travel on the wool to 
the root of it, and bury themselves in the skin. The place 
where they enter the skin is barely visible; a minute red spot 13 
like a pin’s point. They travel and feed under the skin, bur- 
rowing like moles. On the tenth or twelfth day a little swell- 
ing may be felt with the finger, and the skin changes color to 
a greenish blue tint. The little pustule is now rapidly form- 
ed, and breaks about the sixteenth day ; and the mothers again 
appear, with their little ones attached to their feet, and cover- 
ed with a portion of the shell of the egg from which they have 
just escaped. These little ones immedately set to work, and 
do as their mothers did before them. They soon increase to 
myriads, preying upon and tormenting the sheep until he 
sinks under it. The matter from the numerous pustules or 
sores soon forms an almost continuous scab; hence the name. 
It will be seen, from this brief description of the scab-in- 
sect, and which will apply almost equally well to those which 
produce itch and many other skin diseases in man, and mange 
and the like on horses, dogs, etc., that directly applied means 
must be used for their destruction, and prevention as well. 
Wherever there are sheep there are insects of some kind, 
as lice, cads, ticks, etc., to annoy and prey upon them. And 
unless these are not only destroyed, but their presence rend- 
ered impossible, sheep-farming and wool-producing will never 
prove the profitable busines that it is capable of' being made. 
This preparation is offered as a certain and safe cure for 
scab; being a soap, it penetrates at once to the skin and re- 
moves it. 
It is best used as a dip or bath. One pound of the Soap 
dissolved in two gallons of warm water, adding when dissolv- 
ed six, or—if for lambs or delicate sheep—eight gallons more 
is enough for ten sheep with a moderate coat of wool. If 
newly Bhorn it will dip twelve or fourteen head of small 
sheep. 
It will be useless to give directions for dipping Sheep to an 
old Pastor, as each one has his own plan, yet most of them may 
be improved. It being conceded by all successful sheep raisers 
that the benefit to the health of the sheep, the quality and 
texture of the wool far exceed the expense and trouble of 
DIRECTIONS FOR DIPPING-. 14 
dipping, it is now thought to be as much the duty of a success- 
ful raiser to dip his sheep every Spring as it is to shear them, 
even though they may not be troubled with that pest, the 
scab; one of the most simple and labor saving is to build a 
smaller pen connected by a gate with the large pen and cap- 
able of holding when well.packed, say fifty sheep; let this pen 
taper to the size of your vat, where a man stands at each end 
and receives a sheep from the catcher. (This vat should be 
fifty inches long, thirty wide and thirty-five deep, and kept two- 
thirds full of liquid). 
One man tales the hind legs and the other the fore and 
dips the animal thoroughly in the liquid, holding one hand 
over the nostrils and mouth, if the head be submerged, which, 
better avoid. When thoroughly saturated to the skin, take 
out and rest for a moment on a raised platform, the other side 
of the vat, so constructed that it tapers to the size of the top of 
the vat, and so that the liquid runs back into it, widening 
as it extends back and large enough to contain twenty to thirty 
sheep, and enclosed so that they stand here and drip. 
This platform should be provided at the back with a gate 
and inclined passage out, either into another large pen or the 
open field as may be desired. The kettle with the hot liquid 
should be convenient, so that as the liquid decreases in the vat 
it may be kept up to the desired quantity from the kettle, 
which also keeps it of the right temperature 100° to 110°. 
with this simple arrangement three men and a boy may dispose 
of from three to five hundred sheep per day. 
Carbolic Plant Protector. 
To destroy and prevent bugs, flies, caterpillars, plant-lice, 
black scale, turnip and cabbage fly, etc., on plants. Used in 
solution; one pound to twenty gallons or so, as to strength of 
plants. 
For strong growing plants or trees one pound to from five 
to ten gallons of water is of sufficient strength. 
It is extremely difficult to give exact directions for the use 
of this Compound on account of the infinite variety of insects that prey upon vegetation, we offer the Agriculturist Carbolic 
Acid in its most reliable form, as its strength can be regulated 
according to experience. 
In addition to articles already enumerated, we offer 
Carbolic Granulated Powder. 
(PATENTED.) 
A powerful disinfectant and purifier; obnoxious to all insect 
life, its effects are continuous and lasting, valuable, especially 
for the stable and poultry yard. 
CARBOLIC ACID in crystals and solution; also CRUDE 
ACID, containing about 60 per cent for disinfectiug purposes. 16 
From numerous TESTIMONIALS the following are 
selected as valuable: 
Five: Points House of Industry. 155 Worth St., 
New York, Nov 15,1867. 
Messrs. Buchan & Co.—Gentlemen—Some months since we purchased a 
large bunding which had been used as a tenement establishment for thirteen 
years, and was occupied by 60me ninety families. We tore away partitions, 
turning between three and four hundred rooms into less than one hundred 
We found the walls and floors perfectly infested with vermin. We usea freely 
in cleansing, the Carbolic Soaps, manufactured by your firm, and wTith 
the very best results, as the bugs, etc., have entirely disappeared. We pro- 
pose to continue its use in cleaning our dormitories, hoping then to keep clear 
of a plague so common to all housekeepers in cities. 
S. B. HALLIDAY, Sup’t. 
Corpus Christi, Texas, March 15,1868. 
Messrs. Jas. Buchan & Co.— Gentlemen—Your Sheep Dip is wonderful in 
its effects. I have dipped 2150 head with nine months’ fleeces on their backs. 
It is now three weeks since, and no scratching as yet. Your Dip is far supe- 
rior to tobacco, not so disagreeable or unpleasant, much less trouble and more 
permanent. 
I have used it on horses when diseased with a species of mange or itch, 
and it has the same good effect as on sheep. 
F. W. SHAEFFER. 
Belton, Bell Co., Texas, July 10,1868. 
Messrs. Buchan & Co.—Gentlemen—The compounds of the Carbolic Acid 
sent me some months since, have been thoroughly tested by myself and 
neighboring flockmasters All agree wuth myself that, as disinfectants and 
remedies to cure scab, kill screw worm and prevent its return, healing old 
gangrenous sores and wounds, killing and driving away flies, these prepara- 
tions are without a rival, and should be within reach of every stock 
raiser in Texas* 
Respectfully, 
H. J CHAMBERLIN, 
President Texas Wool Growers Association. 17 
The editor of the Turf, Field and Farm, says, on 28th August, 1868. 
“ DEATH TO FLEAS.— We own a thm, satin-skinned black-and tan fancy 
terrier. The poor little fellow had no peace of his life, and was on the point 
of being flea-botomised to death by myriads of ferocious fleas. We tried the 
various nostrums advertised by the different empyrics of New York, with 
only partial success, when we received from our friend Chase, of the Ameri- 
can Agriculturist firm, a cake of CARBOLIC ACID SOAP; that did the 
business The vermin were slaughtered, and our little dog is happy again, 
and as lively as a cricket ” 
The following is even more valuable testimony : 
Office Brooklyn City Railroad Company, 
November 12,1868. 
*• I take great pleasure in recommending the Carbolic Disinfecting 
Soaps, manufactured, by J as, Buchan & Co for the cure of all external 
diseases to which horses are subject. I tried the Ointment on a horse with a 
severe fistula on his shoulder, as a first test, and with entire success. And 1 
cannot speak in sufficiently strong terms of its healing qualities, in all cases 
of galls, scratches, bruises, swellings, etc. I am using the soap in all of our 
stables. 
“ No person owning a horse should be without these soaps; for, in my long 
experience with horses, 1 have never found any thing to compare with them. 
HENRY PALMER, 
“ Sup’t. Horses, Brooklyn City R. R. Co.’’ 
American Agriculturist, April 8th, 1868. 
Lice on Cattle and Sheep.—The Spring is the season when most annoy- 
ance is caused by these parasites. We have so many letters asking for and 
recommending cures,that we are induced again to allude to that wonderfully 
effective destroyer of such vermin, Carbolic Acid. This is used in the 
form of Soaps, which may be easily applied in water, making a moderately 
strong suds. We have employed this soap to rid our shelves of ants, our cup- 
boards of cockroaches, poultry of lice, dogs and cats of fleas, and not having 
any occasion to use it upon our horses or neat stock, have supplied acquain- 
tances whose stables were infected. We have even prescribed a bath of 
Carbolic Soap and water for a newly arrived immigrant, and in every case of 
its application have had the satisfaction of learning of its efficacy Farewell 
to mercurial ointment, that efficient but very dangerous article m careless 
hands. So iong as we can obtain carbolic compounds we banish it. 
Wright Rivers, Esq., of Washington, D. C., writes: *'I purchased of you 
last spring some Carbolic Disinfecting Soap for the mange on a valuable dog, 
and 1 am happy to say that /t cured him in a very short time 18 
Treasury Department, May 4, 1869. 
James Buchan, Esq.—My Dear Sir— It gives me pleasure to say to you 
that the most beneficial effects have followed the treatment of some more 
severe cases of an inflammatory nature, which I have had treated by medical 
gentlemen here with the different samples of preparations of Carbolic Com- 
pounds. One severe case of opthalmia tarsi of several years standing was 
cured in a week. Two or three cases of salt rheum, one of thirty years 
standing, have yielded to its influence. I am having various experiments and 
tests made with the samples which 1 received from you, and purpose at some 
future time to give you a record of them 
Very truly yours, 
W. M. MEW. 
Floyd, Floyd Co., Iowa, Nov. 14,1869. 
Messrs. James Buchan & Co — Gentlemen— You will please send me 
100 pounds Dip as soon as possible. 1 am short this amount to finish the dip* 
ping commenced a few days ago. 1 have made up my mind to use your Dip 
every time I shear lor the health of the sheep. I think I never had my sheep 
go out looking worse than last Spring, and never had them come in in the Fall 
looking so well, which I attribute to using your Dip. 
E. H. MORRISON. 
Windsor Locks, Conn., Nov. 23,1869. 
Messrs. James Buchan & Co. — Gents—I have used your Cresylic Soap 
prepared for Sheep Dip, for two years and think it is the best preparation 
that I know of for destroying Ticks and Lice on sheep and cattle. It is far 
preferable to Tobacco and should think it would be a sure cure for scab. 
BURDETT LOOMIS. 
New York, Dec. 1,1869. 
Messrs. Bowman & Blewett.—Gentlemen—Having used your Carbolic 
Laundry Soap in our Laundry for the past two months, and finding its cleans- 
ing properties so far superior to any soap we have ever used, we take the 
very greatest pleasure in recommending it to every laundry and family in the 
country. Our goods are whiter by far, more easily and thoroughly cleansed 
from every stain, grease spots, etc., and this too with 50 per cent, less soap, 
and our premises are kept sweet and clean by its use. 
Yours respectfully, 
ANDRUS BROTHERS. 19 
PRICE LIST. 
CARBOLIC LAUNDRY SOAP. 
In boxes of 24 and 60 lbs. lb. bars. Price by the 
box per lb. 15 cts. 
CARBOLIC TOILET SOAP. 
In boxes of 3 dozen each. 
Medicated, per doz. $3 60 
“ perfumed, .... “ 4 00 
CARBOLIC MEDICINAL SOAP. 
In boxes of 3 dozen each, - per doz 3 00 
CARBOLIC DENTAL SOAP. 
per doz. 
CARBOLIC SHAVING SOAP. 
per doz. 
CARBOLIC MARINE SOAP. 
In 60 lb. boxes, per lb. 20 
CARBOLIC DISINFECTING SOAP. 
In boxes containing 3 doz, - - - per box $3 60 
“ “ 10 lbs. each, lb, bars 4 00 
CRESYLIC SHEEP DIP, 
In canisters of 5 lbs., 1 25 
10 lbs., 2 25 
50 lb kegs, 10 00 
In barrels of 200 lbs., - 35 00 
CRESYLIC OINTMENT. 
1 lb. canister, 50 
3 lbs., - - 1 00 
§s., ir\25 
s., 2 25 
. kegs, 1 0 30 
. barrels, 35-00 
CARBOLIC PLANT PROTECTOR. 
In 5, 10, 50, and 200 lb. packages, at same price sts Ointment. 
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Discounts to the Trade only. 
BOWMAN & BLEWETT, 
SOLE AGENTS, 
52 Barclay Street, N. Y. 
For Sale by all Druggists and Grocers. CARBOLIC ACID 
SOAPS.