Cresolene

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Cresolene is a dark liquid with a pungent smell made from coal tar used in the 19th and early 20th century as a disinfectant{{Cite web |url=http://www.storytrax.com/node/454 |title=Sunlight and Firelight {{!}} StoryTrax |access-date=2007-06-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929194448/http://www.storytrax.com/node/454 |archive-date=2007-09-29 |url-status=dead }} and to treat various ailments such as colds and measles. Most well known of all cresolene products was the Vapo-Cresolene lamp, used to heat the substance so that the fumes could be inhaled; these were produced between 1879 and 1957.{{Cite web|title=Untitled {{!}} McCord Museum|url=http://collections.musee-mccord.qc.ca/scripts/viewobject.php?section=18&Lang=1&tourID=example&seqNumber=3|access-date=2021-05-27|website=collections.musee-mccord.qc.ca}}