Excerpt from The Toxicity Towards Anthrax and Staphylococcus of Solutions Containing Phenol and Sodium Chloride

My experiments with anthrax spores show that the in creased toxicity observed ou adding salt to a phenol solution is in accordance with the assumption that two solutions of phenol, with or without salt, are equally toxic if their com positions are such that both would be in equilibrium with the same solution of phenol in toluene. The experiments with staphylococcus, however, in which lower concentration phenol were employed, show that while the asumption fairlv in accord with the behaviour of 0 80 percent pheno. In the case of percent phenol the chemically equivalent solution containing salt is much less toxic, percent phenol occupies an intermediate position.

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