Creasote

or Creasotum (kre'-as-ot, -ot'-um) i flesh; ooi-eiv, to preserve. The product of the distill a tion of wood-tar, consisting of a mixture of ph pounds. It is an inflammable oily liquid, differ i this respect from carbolic acid. It does not coagulate albumin or collodion. Most of the commercial ere asote consists of carbolic acid or contains a larg' centage it. It is valuable for its antiseptic, astrin gent, styptic, anesthetic, and escharotic prop Dose n. Beechwood Creasote, from Fagu ylz-atica, is best for internal use. Dose mj, every three hours. C, Aqua, a one per cent, solution. Dose C.-bath. See Bath . C, Mistura (B.P.). Dose j-ij. C.-oil, Heavy Oil, the third main fraction in the coal-tar distillation -proce . It is collected at temperatures of from 2300 to 2700 C, or until the anthracene commences to distil. The oil has a greenish-vellow color, and is very fluorescent, and becomes progre ively more so upon exposure to light and air. The odor is unpleasant and extremely characteristic. The oil is heavier than water, and contains naphthalene, anthracene, phenanthrene, phenol, cresol, etc. It is mainly in the creasoting or preservation of timber; ft is also used as a fuel, and for the production of illuminating gas, as a lubricant, and for the production of lam min" lampblack. C, Unguentum (B.P.), for local applion. C, Vapor for inhalation, tic. Relating to flesh. xtinin. C. Nausea, a loathing of flesh as food. focx Creat Creatin (kre'-at-in), A neuorganic substance that occurs in the animal organ, especially in the juice of muscles. It crystallizes ith one molecule of water in glistening prisms, which, he; heated to ioo°, sustain a lo of water. It has a faintly iter taste and di olves rather readily in boiling water, di olves with difficulty in alcohol and yields crysline salts with one equivalent of acid. s E Creatin in kre-af '-in-iti, An dine substance, a normal constituent of urine. It crystallizes in rhombic prisms, and is a strong base. It is much more soluble than creatin.