Medical Mercury Use

Medical Uses for Mercury Through the Years - Facty Health

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Over the centuries, researches have often referred to mercury as quicksilver. Though a poor conductor of heat, the element …

Uses and effects of mercury in medicine and dentistry

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It has many therapeutic uses including various medications, ointments, dental fillings, contact lens, cosmetics, paints as well as in different instruments like thermometer …

Mercury and health - World Health Organization

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Mercury in Consumer Products | US EPA

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Basic Information about Mercury | US EPA

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Inorganic mercury can also enter water or soil from the weathering of rocks that contain inorganic mercury salts, and from factories or water treatment facilities that …

MERCURY USE: HOSPITALS AND CLINICS

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Major uses of mercury include dental amalgams, tilt switches, thermometers, lamps, pigments, batteries, reagents, and barometers. When these products are thrown in the …

13 Mercury Uses in Everyday Life – StudiousGuy

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Uses of Mercury 1. Thermometer 2. Fluorescent Lamps 3. Float Valves 4. Liquid Mirror Telescopes 5. Dental Amalgams 6. Explosives 7. Vaccines 8. Tattoo Ink 9. Contact Lens …

History Of Mercury Use in Products and Processes

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Mercury was used in scientific research largely as a result of Torricelli’s 1643 invention of the barometer and Fahrenheit’s 1720 invention of the mercury thermometer. …

[Mercury--a major agent in the history of medicine and …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19831290/

Medical treatment is described by Pliny and Celsus, e.g. the use of cinnabar in trachoma and venereal diseases. When the Arabs learned Greek alchemy by the Nestorians, they …

The 'Murderous' Medical Practice Of The 18th Century

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For hundreds of years, mercury-containing products claimed to heal a varied and strangely unrelated host of ailments. Melancholy, constipation, syphilis, influenza, parasites—you name it, and someone …