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The effects on the physical and mental health of populations can only be guessed at. (Animals, incidentally, were treated in the same way; a lincolnshire druggist is said to have sold twenty-five tons of mercurial ointment to local farmers in a single year. 59 ) Perhaps the most irresponsible prescribing was of draughts of mercury to relieve constipation-a minor complaint for which many more effective and safer remedies were known. Even a level-headed physician like Lemery thought it better to take a lot than a little 43 Mercury is given in the Disease called Miserere, unto two or three Pounds, and is voided again by Siege to the same Weight; it is better to take a great Deal of it than a little, because a small Quantity might be apt to stop in the Circumvolutions of the Guts, and if some acid Humours should happen to join with it, a Sublimate Corrosive would be there made; but when a large Quantity of it is taken, there's no need of fearing this Accident, because it passes quickly through by its own Weight.
48 They were all the rage for a time, but there were the inevitable accidents, both because the pastilles looked like sweets, and because the fumes evolved were highly toxic. Non-mercurial substitutes were devised, but probably none was as effective as the original. 7 Mercury in Industry The employment of mercury in the extraction of gold and silver has already been mentioned. The trades of hat-making and gilding will be dealt with in chapter 10. Another industrial outlet stemmed from the discovery in 1800 by Edward Charles Howard (1774-1816) of mercury fulminate and its detonating properties.
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