Styrone

(sti'-ron). A compound of balsam of Peru and styrax. It occurs usually in the form of a brown, syrupy liquid, of a pleasantly aromatic odor, and a pungent, biting, persistent taste; it also crystallizes. It is antiseptic, deodorant, analgesic, and makes a pleasant deodorizer, in solution, used as a spray, likewise an agreeable mouth-wash, to neutralize tobacco and other odors, and is used as an antiseptic in dental practice. In from I to 5 per cent, solutions it furnishes a strong antiseptic for surgical use, di olved in olive-oil, or mixed with ointment bases; it has also been recommended in the treatment of otorrhea. S. Method, a method of bleaching microscopic preparations of parasitic fungi by the use of styrone.