MERCURIAL ADMINISTRATION:

Mercurial Diuretics: the Addition of Magnesium Sulphate to Prevent the Toxic Effects of Their Intravenous Administration.

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...

Urinary and fecal excretion of mercury in man following administration of mercurial diuretics.

The widespread use of mercurial diuretics has stimulated greater interest in the metabolism of organic mercurials in man. Recently proposed regimens (1) involving frequent, even daily, administration of mercurials, have focused particular attention on the 24 hour excretion of these compounds in relation to the cumulative toxicity of any mercury which may be retained. Moreover, little is known o...

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...