Mercury(I) chloride
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Mercury chloride is the chemical compound with the formula Hg2Cl2. Also known as the mineral calomel or mercurous chloride, this dense white or yellowish-white, odorless solid is the principal example
Mercury Chloride
Heroic medicine
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Heroic medicine can either refer to heroic therapy or to heroic drugs.
Mercury(I) chloride
…of clubroot amongst crops of the family Brassicaceae. Mercury became a popular remedy for a variety of physical and mental ailments during the age of "heroic medicine". It was prescribed by doctors in America throughout the 18th century, and during the revolution, to make patients regurgitate and release their body…
Breathing a Vein, a caricature of bloodletting by venesection by James Gillray, 1804