Dippel's oil

Dippels animal oil (oleum animale aethereum Dippleri ) is a by its manufacturer Johann Conrad Dippel ( 1673-1734 ) called Essential Oil.

The preparation was carried out at the time in two distillation stages. In the first bone and animal waste products were processed into bone tar. Distillation of the Knochenteers showed a strong -smelling animal oil with alkaline, nitrogen-containing compounds.

Animal oils (in particular the oleum animale foetidum crudum ) were already known. Dippels oil gained fame by claiming Dippels in his dissertation, so an elixir vitae to have a universal medicine found. We implemented it in typhoid, epilepsy and liniments. With three parts of turpentine, it forms the oleum contra Taeniam Chaberti, an old tapeworms. However, already in the Encyclopédie Diderot raised doubts about the efficacy in epilepsy.

Dippels animal oil was loud Georg Ernst Stahl crucial in the discovery of the pigment Prussian blue by Johann Jacob This stream.

The first photographs of Joseph Nicephore Niepce in 1827, the light-sensitive layer of Judea and asphalt, which was dissolved in Dippels oil and then coated on a tin plate was.