Mercurochrome®

[barengeist.livejournal.com]

All I can think is that those of us of a certain age or older are sturdier for what we were subjected to, including this stuff. Nothing like a little mercury solution in an open wound to speed that heavy metal straight to your brain and other important bits.

Comments

[misstia]

yep, had this stuff used on me all the time....apparently it's still available in australia IIRC.....

[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

I am 34, and it was still used in the 80's.

[deborahkla.livejournal.com]

Mercurochrome was a blessing if you were a kid in the fifties and sixties; it was a great, painless alternative to iodine (which not only hurt like the bejeesus but also caused tissue damage.)

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

you can still buy mecurachrome. it just no longer has mercury in it.

and in the amounts (2% solution) there, it wouldn't cause an overdose unless you were drinking it. mercury is STILL used in preserving some vacines!