One of its products was a ‘scratchy’ toilet paper, impregnated with Izal disinfectant, and given away free to local authorities which bought bulk supplies of hygiene products. The claims seem unbelievably wild today, but Izal attracted favourable reports from bacteriologists. Izal prevents infection in Cholera, Smallpox, Diphtheria, Influenza, Scarlet Fever, Swine Fever, Malaria, Worms, Typhus, and Typhoid Fever, and practically covers the whole field of infectious diseases.” “Izal – the new non-poisonous disinfectant and prevention of infection. The resulting product was trialled in hospitals and became known as Thorncliffe Patent Disinfectant before being called Izal – reputed to be an anagram of Liza, Worrall’s sister. The origins go back to 1793 when George Newton and Thomas Chambers became partners in the Phoenix Foundry and, along with financier Henry Longden, they signed a 21-year-lease with Earl Fitzwilliam, the landowner, to extract coal and ironstone from the Thorncliffe Valley near Chapeltown.Ī hundred years after coal production began it turned to Jason Hall Worrall, a chemist, to analyse the oil produced by coke and subsequently develop a germicide oil which, when mixed with an emulsifying agent, dispersed through any liquid. I’m talking about Izal, made here in Sheffield, famous for that waxy disinfectant toilet paper that many of us grew up with. Whatever period of history are welcomed to membership.Here’s a topical post because it involves disinfectant and toilet paper… and a brand that was once a brand leader. The scope of the Society's purpose is not limitedīy temporal boundaries: All sincere students of man and his works in Asia, at Include such subjects as philology, literary criticism, textual criticism, paleography,Įpigraphy, linguistics, biography, archaeology, and the history of the intellectualĪnd imaginative aspects of Oriental civilizations, especially of philosophy, Of Asia has always been central in its tradition. The encouragement of basic research in the languages and literatures From the beginning its aims haveīeen humanistic. Philosophical Society (1743), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1780),Īnd the American Antiquarian Society (1812).
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