Salicylic Acid, produced in commercial quantities from carbolic acid; is a white crystalline powder, soluble in water, odourless, of a sweetish acid taste; largely used as an external antiseptic, and internally in the form of salicylate of sodium as a febrifuge and cure for acute rheumatism.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Salic Law * Salisbury