Mercury warning

Cole HS, Hitchcock AL, Collins R. 1992. Mercury warning The fish you catch may be unsafe to eat -A study of mercury contamination in the United States. Washington, D.C. Clean Water Fund/Clean Water Action. 

But when fish continue to disappear from our waters from chronic and episodic acidification, fishing restrictions from mercury warn us of the hazards we can t see, and dominant trees such as economically important sugar... 

Warnings and precautions against the danger of poisonous gases from charcoal fires, lead and mercury fumes, and from the strong waters are given. Workers are advised to work in the open air, to cover the mouth, and it is advisable some say to eat garlic before and after the work ... 

When the conjunction of Mercury with the soluble body is made, the Philosophers speak of the two as of one thing and then they say the sages find in Mercury all that is necessary for them. Therefore one must not permit one s self to be deceived by the diversity of names and to warn against error of this kind some of the principal names are here given ... 

As the various Latin, French, and Flemish inscriptions printed with The Alchemist made clear, Brueghel (1525-69) offered early modern viewers a morality tale of the futility of alchemy, warning those who were tempted that it could only destroy families and households. "See how this foolish man distills in his vials / The blood of his children, his treasures and his senses," read one French inscription. "See how, after searching uselessly for mercury, / He goes with his children to seek his bread."1 The moral of the story seems clear. Yet as a representation of the alchemist, Brueghel s... 

WATER OF THE PHILOSOPHERS — Some chemists have erroneously considered this to be Distilled Vinegar, others Brandy made from Wine, others again Rectified Spirit of Wine, following a statement of Raymond Lully, that the Quintessence is extracted from Wine, and is sometimes called Wine by the same writer. They would have seen their mistake had they remembered that Lully himself gives warning that this is not to be literally understood, and that when he says the Mercury of the Philosophers is obtained from Wine, he is speaking by similitude only, and that this Mercury or Philosophical Water is actually derived from the Red Sea of the Philosophers. 

In other words, Boerhaave warned against the danger of using mercury as a universal remedy. Every disease asks for its own remedy and as there are innumerable diseases it is an impossible task to present the physician with a textbook full of solutions. Again, we meet with Boerhaave s aim to make his pupils understand the causes of diseases and their cures, rather than delivering a recipe book. 

Methane bacteria have been shown to catalyze reactions in which the active methyl group is transferred to acceptors such as arsenate or mercury. When extracts are incubated in a hydrogen atmosphere with methylcobalamin, arsenate, and ATP, a volatile arsine derivative is formed (20). Arsines are difficult and dangerous to work with they are extremely poisonous and are oxidized rapidly in air. Fortunately they have an intense garhc odor so the investigator is warned of their presence. 

Despite several warnings over many years, the use of mercuric chloride solutions during operations in an attempt to kill cancer cells implanted in healthy tissues persists in some countries. Intraperitoneal administration, when seeding of a visceral cancer is feared, carries the risk of mercury absorption and nephrotoxicity. Death from intoxication after peritoneal lavage with a mercuric chloride solution has been reported (3). 

Anonymous. Ammoniated mercury in skin lightening cream-warning against use and prohibition. WHO Pharm Newslett 1998 5/6 1. 

You or your children may be exposed to methylmercury when eating certain types of fish caught from contaminated waters, or when eating certain types of wildlife from mercury contaminated areas. Most states, Native American tribes, and U.S. Territories have issued fish and/or wildlife advisories to warn people about methylmercury contaminated fish and/or wildlife. Most of the... 

ATSDR. 1997. Backgrounder ATSDR and EPA warn the public about continuing patterns of metallic mercury exposure. Department of Health and Human Serives. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Public Health Service. 

Use Warning agents in fuel gas lines, chemical intermediates. Note Adoption of the name thiol to replace mercaptan has been officially approved as more consistent with the molecular constitution of these compounds. The older term, which literally means mercury seizing, is inappropriate. 

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