swizzle
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It was a strong medicine. To much could kill you. Just enough in a proper dose would keep you addicted for a long time. Swiz
Coffin pills and poison bottle
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Wangan
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Thanks Swizzle.I kind of thought that was the case,but to me poison is like bleach or something absolutely not to be taken.[X(]
Actually, you wouldn't be addicted at all.
Mercury compounds do a lot of things, but they are not habit forming.
In fact, small doses of mercury adversely affect the kidneys, liver and ultimately, the central nervous system.
Minamata Disease is the end result of chronic mercury toxicity. Acute toxicity leads to a very miserable and rather immediate death.
These tablets were used as an antiseptic. They were, unfortunately often kept in the medicine cabinet with oral medications: the end result was unintentional mercury poisoning.
Mercury ointments were used as a treatment for syphilis. It actually "worked" but it also resulted in mercury poisoning, the symptoms of which were not unlike tertiary syphilis. Al Capone dies of tertiary syphilis (not mercury poisoning!) I won't go into details as to how the mercury ointment was introduced into the infected patient.... but the ointment was removed from the system, by urine flow!
I'm not a collector of bottles, but would be interested in the tablets.
Doug
Longhunter
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Please show us a picture of your bottle. Many different poison bottles contained mercury bichloride.
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