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That advert is an Offer, the choice to buy and use the Carbolic Smokeballs was Acceptance, she caught flu, therefore now Carbolic Smokeball Co.

The drinks in a speakeasy frequently contained various poisons ranging from methyl alcohol to organophosphates to carbolic acid.

What makes you think it would be significantly easier to filter out the carbolic acid from the ocean?

Lister used carbolic acid (for dressing and wound cleaning) and Semmelweis used chlorinated lime (for hand washing).

It was not just about washing hands -- it was about washing them with carbolic acid.

See, for example, Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company [1] which is a famous example used in every single textbook.

Actually most water is a dilute solution of carbolic acid with a pH around 5.5 because of the dissolved CO2 in the water.

Each 100 shares purchased comes with your very own carbolic smoke ball.

Look up the charmingly named Carbolic Smoke Ball case, for example.

If you're lucky a judge will do it for you, as in Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co (the foundation of contract law) or indeed Bostock v.

Semmelweis used what we call chlorine bleach, Lister carbolic acid (dangerous stuff).

To elaborate on your points some more: the basic building blocks of contract law were already well established by the time Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball came about.

Modern Contract Law mostly comes back to "Carlill v Carbolic Smokeball Co" in the 19th century.

This is about a quack medicine (Carbolic Smokeballs don't prevent Influenza) but the legal question was: If you specifically advertise that if people do a thing (use your Carbolic Smokeballs) and an event happens (a customer catches Influenza, "flu") you will pay them a lot of money (£100 in the 1890s) - well can the advertiser say they didn't mean it when asked for the money?

Meanwhile, the carbolic-acid remedies to them, all requiring individual sacrifice of one kind or another, struggle to get anywhere." The article continues in a health-care context to discuss the importance of doing-things-that-don't-scale efforts to educate and change behavior.

His methods for the "rehabilitation" of masturbation addicts included measures up to the point of cutting off part of the genitals, without anesthetic, on both sexes; he wrote men who did should be circumcised and women that did should have carbolic acid applied to their clitoral glans.

Carbolic Smoke Ball was heard in 1892, peppercorn rents (literal and figurative) predate that case by hundreds of years.

Carbolic acid is an organic compound also known as phenol.