Calbol - Carbole

Japanese: カルボール - かるぼーる
Calbol - Carbole

...As a result, the price of carbolic acid rose by more than 50 times, and since it was designated a highly toxic drug, it was not available to the general public. As an emergency measure, only local governments were allowed to sell it diluted by 50 times or mixed with other drugs. The first person to use carbolic acid (called carbol by medical professionals) in clinical practice for the purpose of sterilization was the British surgeon J. Lister, who used it to treat everything, including wounds. At the time, surgery had a high mortality rate of 65-90% in British military hospitals and 26-60% in civilian hospitals, and surgery was considered to be the same as death, but this treatment succeeded in significantly reducing the mortality rate. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Carbol" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…このため石炭酸の価格は50倍以上となり,また劇薬に指定されていたので一般では手に入らず,非常措置として50倍以上に希釈したもの,他の薬剤と混和したものが地方庁に限って販売が許された。石炭酸(医学系の人はカルボールと呼んだ)を最初に殺菌の目的で臨床に応用したのはイギリスの外科医J.リスターで,傷口も含めてすべてのものを処置した。当時,手術はイギリスの陸軍病院で65~90%,市民病院で26~60%の高い死亡率を示し,手術は死と同様に考えられていたが,この処置によって死亡率を大幅に低下させることに成功した。…

※「カルボール」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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