What be the ingredients in Mercurochrome ?
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Mercurochrome is a combination of Mercury and merthiolate. Mercury is toxic.
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Mercurochrome, Merbromine, Sodium mercurescein, Asceptichrome, Supercrome and Cinfacromin) is a topical antiseptic used for minor cuts and scrapes. It is no longer sold surrounded by the USA because of its mercury content. Merbromin is an organomercuric disodium salt compound and a fluorescein.An example of Mercurochrome
An example of Mercurochrome
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* 1 Uses
* 2 Mercurochrome & Tinctures
o 2.1 Cultural references
* 3 External links
[edit] Uses
Merbromin's best-known use is as a topical antiseptic, now no longer approved by the FDA. It is also used as a biological dye used to easy target tissue margins, and as a metal dye in industrial dye penetrant inspection to detect metal fractures.
[edit] Mercurochrome & Tinctures
Mercurochrome is the trade name of merbromin and (usually) of merbromin tinctures made of merbromin and alcohol or hose (usually 2% merbromin to 98% alcohol or water).
Its antiseptic qualities be discovered by Johns Hopkins doctor Hugh Young in 1919. The chemical soon became popular among parents and doctors for everyday antiseptic uses and it be very commonly used for minor injuries in the schoolyard, where on earth children nicknamed the tincture 'Monkey Blood'. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) removed it from the "mostly recognized as safe" and into the 'untested' classification to effectively halt its distribution in the United States in 1998 over fears of potential mercury poisoning. It is at hand in most other countries.
[edit] Cultural references
* Mercurochrome is mentioned several times surrounded by Joseph Heller's 1955 novel Catch-22.
* Mercurochrome is mentioned several times contained by Ernest Hemingway's novel Islands surrounded by the Stream published posthumously by Mary Hemingway.
* Mercurochrome is mentioned in J.D. Salinger's Nine Stories in the short story, "Just Before the War With the Eskimos"
* A 1973 episode of M*A*S*H (5 O'Clock Charlie), an inept North Korean pilot, known as "5 O'Clock Charlie", make his daily attempt to bomb the ammo dump. Frank puts surrounded by a request for an anti-aircraft gun, which is granted when Charlie hits General Clayton's jeep. Frank takes charge of the gun, while Hawkeye and Trapper are determined to prevent him using it, by getting rid of the ammo dump by sculpture sheets with mercurochrome to spawn a large bullseye. Frank misses Charlie but destroys the dump.
* In the 1980 Salman Rushdie fresh, Midnight's Children, European-trained doctor Aadam Aziz is described administering mercurochrome on wounded civilians during the time of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in Armistar (April 1919).
* In the 1986 film The Golden Child, Eddie Murphy's part asks the villain for mercurochrome after receiving an arm wound during a dream sequence.
* In the musical and movie RENT, Angel sings in "Today 4 U" the queue, "the nurse took him home for some mercurochrome, and I dressed his wounds and got him rear legs on his feet..."
* In Robert Altman's picture O.C. and Stiggs, Mercurochrome is mentioned in a pre-wedding sequence, when it is jokingly suggested to incorporate mercurochrome dots to a bandage covering a cyst.
* Poet Wanda Coleman titled a volume of her poetry Mercurochrome, published by Black Sparrow Books in 2001.
* In Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Garcia Marquez, for use as blood substitute to counterfeit virginity
* Mercurochrome is mentioned in Sue Monk Kidd's book, The Secret Life of Bees on page 261.
* In the 1971 film Dirty Harry, the largest character asks for "zilch fancy, just a couple of tweezers and some mercurochrome" to remove shotgun pellets from his leg after one shot while preventing a bank robbery.