INTRA-MERCURIAL PLANETS

Acute mercurial pneumonitis.

Milne, J., Christophers, A., and de Silva, Pamela (1970). Brit. J. industr. Med., 27, 334-338. Acute mercurial pneumonitis. Mercury vapour has been shown to cause acute effects on the lung when inhaled in high concentrations. Four men, exposed to mercury inside a tank, developed, hours later, signs and symptoms of an acute febrile illness with severe pulmonary irritation, characterized by fever...

Organic mercurial encephalopathy.

Poisoning with organic mercury is uncommon (Cumings, 1959) and there have been few detailed pathological studies (Hunter and Russell, 1954; Brown, 1954). With the increasing use of insecticides and fungicides containing organic mercury more cases may be encountered. There has also been described from Japan another type of organic mercurial poisoning (Kurland, Faro, and Siedler, 1960); the occur...

Sodium Thiosulphate in Mercurial Poisoning

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette. Sir,?In your issue for last November, p. 641, in the abstract from Dr. Johnstone's article on acute mercurial poisoning, it is stated that ' we use sodium thiosulphate both by mouth and intravenously. Its intravenous use has not proved valuable in experimental animals, although it has been shown to be harmless Certain writers consider it of value in po...

Clinical aspects of mercurial diuretics.

Mercurial diuresis in edematous individuals.

T HE effect of mercurial diuretics on the renal excretion of electrolytes has been thoroughly investigated in the dog and in the normal man.'-4 The electrolyte losses in the edematous patient, however, have been studied less extensively.4-7 There is general agreement that in both the normal individual. and in the edematous patient the diuresis is predominantly one of sodium and chloride. There ...