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Abstract
In experimental animals, 5% crude coal tar produced a 45.9% delay in wound healing. This may have resulted from the direct effect of tar on the wound or from the known fact that tar increases the severity of infections. Efforts were made to control infection, and no clinical evidence of infection occurred. This data might be clinically significant, at least for areas such as the skin and lungs where organisms are present.