The Official Tests for Creosote
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England, Joseph W.
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Article
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1912
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Elsevier
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The tests of the G. S. Pharmacopceia (VIII) for Creosote are indefinite and unsatisfactory. The therapeutically active ingredients are chiefly the ethers guaiacol (b.p. 200" C.) and creosol (b.p. 219" C.) with the alcohols phenol (b.p. 182" C. B. P.), paracreosol (b.p. 203" C.) , dimethyl-guaiacol