Subcutaneous Injection of Mercury: "Warding Off Evil"

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 ...

Warding off sleepiness.

This article focused on the sleep effects of three schedule attributes. Ideally, business requirements and employee preferences also will be taken into account when selecting the "best" shift schedule for your site.

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 ...

Warding off burn injuries, warding off database fishing expeditions: the ABA burn prevention committee takes a turn with a glimmer from the national burn repository.

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...