SUBCUTANEOUS INJECTION OF MERCURY IN CONSTITUTIONAL SYPHILIS.

Self-administration of mercury by subcutaneous injection.

An unmarried woman of 21 developed diabetes mellitus in 1957 when aged 12. Her subsequent management was often complicated by diabetic ketoacidosis and coma, eventually traced to failure to administer her insulin correctly. At a number of centres in the London area she received psychiatric treatment, with a diagnosis of inadequate immature personality and psychopathic features. In 1962, at the ...

Subcutaneous Injection of Mercury: “Warding Off Evil”

Deliberate injection of mercury, especially subcutaneous injection, is rare but is seen in psychiatric patients, individuals who attempt suicide, those who are accidentally injected, and boxers who wish to build muscle bulk. Metallic mercury plays a major role in ethnic folk medicine. Neurologic and renal complications can result from high systemic levels of mercury, and subcutaneous injection ...

Subcutaneous injection-induced cellulites

In the hospice ward where patients are in the terminal stages of cancer, it is common practice to give them a subcutaneous injection of pain relievers to reduce their pain and make them more comfortable. Most of these patients are elderly and have low blood pressure or poor veins, which often makes it difficult to inject them because of the calcification at previous injection sites. Thus, subcu...

Subcutaneous insulin injection technique

The aim of this article is to update general nurses’ knowledge of insulin injections. The importance of choosing the optimal injection site for the prescribed insulin regimen and matching the site with the needle length and injection technique is discussed. The appropriate storage of injection devices between use, resuspension of cloudy insulins, and safe disposal of pen needles are also highli...

Soft tissue resection after auto-aggressive subcutaneous and intramuscular metallic mercury injection: A case report