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Lister's antiseptic gauze bandage

One of Lister’s original bandages soaked in a carbolic acid solution from around the 1860s. Carbolic acid, also called phenol, was at this time extracted from coal tar. The acid therefore had a similar smell to road tar on a hot day.

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