New antiseptic

• Book ID: 103088465
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1879
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 59 KB
• Volume: 108
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(79)90313-2

✦ Synopsis

New Antiseptic.--A new and very valuable antlseptie has been di~overed in Germany. It is a double salt of borate of potassium and s(~lium, and is made by dissolving in water equal portions ddoride of pota.~ium, nitrate of' sodium and boracic acid, filtering and evapomti,~g to dwness, it costs about twenty-five cents a pound, and doe~s not give bad taste and properties to foods. Butter may be made from milk kel)t sweet by it at ordina W temperature tbr a week. Meat, game, etc., (lil)ped in a weak solution, remain lmre for a long time. A pi(~e of meat well rubbed with the salt and laid away two years ago is now in l)erfectly good eondition. Eggs are dipped in a solu-*ion ; beer and wine are placed in bottles previously rinsed by it, and remain good fi)r long l)erlods.--Joum~al of Chemis#?].