mercurial
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In fact, said the editor of its correspondence column, "The use of iodine or mercurials in such wounds is to be discouraged or even forbidden."
From Time Magazine Archive
There are the manufacturers of fine chemicals, houses which process raw materials like iodides, mercurials, bismuth salts.
From Time Magazine Archive
He took mild mercurials, pills of soap, rhubarb, and tartar of vitriol, with soluble tartar and dulcified spirits of nitre in barley water.
From An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by Withering, William
Mild mercurials, soap, rhubarb, and squill were tried; but she grew rapidly worse.
From An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by Withering, William
In cases of constipation with high tension, there is no drug as valuable as calomel or one of the other mercurials given occasionally.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall
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