Water, 1 pint.
Keep in stoppered bottle labelled "Poison," and shake before using. Carbolic acid is a caustic poison, and therefore must be handled carefully.
It sometimes happens that the taxidermist, if in a large way of business, is called upon to destroy the insects infesting, it may be, the entire collection of heads or skins hanging in some gentleman's hall. No better or more effective way of doing this is to be found than plunging them entirely in a bath composed of:
No. 17. — Carbolic Acid Wash, No. 3 ("Poison").
Carbolic acid, 1 lb.
Sal ammoniac, 0.5 oz.
Corrosive sublimate, 3 oz.
Pure tannin, 4 oz.
Hot water, 4 galls.
Mix this up in some out-house, or in the open air away from the house, if a fine day; and when the mixture is cold plunge the heads or skins in, holding the former by the horns, and stirring the latter about with a stick; in fact, allowing the mixture to touch the hands as little as possible.