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 | | Phenyl salicylate, C6H4(OH).C.O2C6H5, or salol, is obtained by heating salicylic acid, phenol and phosphorus oxychloride to 120-125 C.; by heating salicylic acid to 220 C.; or by heating salicyl metaphosphoric acid and phenol to 140-150 C. (German Patent 85,565). |
 | | Salicylic acid and salicin (q.v.) share the properties common to the group of aromatic acids, which, as a group, are antiseptic without being toxic to mana property practically, unique; are unstable in the body; are antipretic and analgesic; and diminish the excretion of urea by the kidneys. |
 | | Salicyclic acid is not absorbed by the skin, but it rapidly kills the cells of the epidermis, without affecting the immediately subjacent cells of the dermis (true skin). |
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