Corrosive Sublimate
Item
Title
Corrosive Sublimate
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Special Collections
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Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research
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Description
"Powerful antiseptic. Highly poisonous. Use with caution. Gr. 1.75 in four ounces, or gr. 8.75 in a pint of water, makes a solution of 1 in 1000, a useful strength for washing wounds, etc (BWC 1925:125).
Access Rights
Currently locked away in Strongroom 3 in the UCT Jagger Library. Prior appointment to the library staff needed in order to view the object. Object should be handled with gloves, and a form signed in order to take any photos of it.
Creator
Burroughs Wellcome & Co.
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Date Created
1890
endDate
1940
Source
UCT Special Collections - BC666
Burroughs Wellcome & Co.1925. ‘Tabloid’: brief medical guide for explorers, missionaries, travellers, colonists, planters and others. London: Burroughs Wellcome & Co.
Resonances
Walter Floyd
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Chest: a botanical ecology
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medicine
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disease
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illness
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medicine chest
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Corrosive Sublimate
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antiseptic
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bacteria
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caution
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imperialism
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colonialism
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Type
Object
Contributor
Nina Liebenberg
