in Chem., combining form of FORMIC or FORMYL, as in Formaldehyde, formic aldehyde; Formamide, the amide of formic acid. (Cf. the termination of chloro-form.)
1869. Roscoe, Elem. Chem., 349. Formamide.… Obtained by acting on ethyl formate with ammonia.
1890. Lancet, 11 Oct., 783/2. He had treated 212 cases of syphilitic condylomata with remarkable success by injections, repeated every three or four days, of a 1 per cent. solution of formamide of mercury.
1894. Athenæum, 11 Aug., 199/1. Last year a patent was granted for a solution of formaldehyde as a new antiseptic material, under the name of ‘formalin’: it is claimed to have but a very small poisonous effect on the human organism.
