Carbolic Salve Quotes & Sayings

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Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs. — Charles Dickens

I grew up kind of in the country, in western Georgia. And then I moved a lot closer to Atlanta, and I started doing plays, and when I started doing film, I think I really started to love it. — Morgan Saylor

In August 1867, a thirteen-year-old142 boy who had severely cut his arm while operating a machine at a fair in Glasgow was admitted to Lister's infirmary. The boy's wound was open and smeared with grime - a setup for gangrene. But rather than amputating the arm, Lister tried a salve of carbolic acid, hoping to keep the arm alive and uninfected. The wound teetered on the edge of a terrifying infection, threatening to become an abscess. But Lister persisted, intensifying his application of carbolic acid paste. For a few weeks, the whole effort seemed hopeless. But then, like a fire running to the end of a rope, the wound began to dry up. A month later, when the poultices were removed, the skin had completely healed underneath. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't! — Antoinette Perry

God will not come from Heaven to help us, but He'll use the people around us for that — Sunday Adelaja

My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want to get wisdom. — Kevin Vanhoozer

I've always been a fan of Justin Timberlake. — Hope Solo

four tumbling, squealing cubs, — Rudyard Kipling

Now, I'm a dad, I'm an adult. I've been solo for 25 years; I've been in other people's groups but I'm solo [in a broader sense]. I stopped comparing myself to other people's maps when I was maybe 24, really. The trajectory that I've gone on is not one that I can compare with anybody else. — Johnny Marr