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  • Mercurochrome and merthiolate -- that red stuff mothers dabbed on cuts -- were extremely popular up until relatively recently.

    Kate Kelly: The Politics of Mercury and Your Teeth 2009

  • Instead she leads me to the tub and softly washes my back, then gently dabs at each stripped spot with the wand from the merthiolate, the pink acrid drops stinging so fiercely that I want to turn on her, take my anger and helplessness and horror out on her.

    If I Am Missing or Dead Janine Latus 2007

  • Instead she leads me to the tub and softly washes my back, then gently dabs at each stripped spot with the wand from the merthiolate, the pink acrid drops stinging so fiercely that I want to turn on her, take my anger and helplessness and horror out on her.

    If I Am Missing or Dead Janine Latus 2007

  • Other common agents are merthiolate-iodine-formaldehyde (MIF), sodium acetate-acetic acid-formalin (SAF), and Shaudinn's Fixative.

    We are in Mexico and my husband is ill 2004

  • "The comparative in vitro studies of mercurochrome, metaphen and merthiolate [Thimerosal] on embryonic (developing) tissue cells and bacterial cells by Salle and Lazarus [Proceedings of the Society of Experimental Biology & Medicine, February 1935] cannot be ignored," they said.

    FDA Knew Dangers Of Thimerosal-Vaccines For 60 Years 2005

  • Do not use alcohol, iodine, merthiolate, or other strong antiseptics.

    1) Head Control and Use of Senses 1999

  • My suggestion, is that you stock up on baking soda, merthiolate, Crest, and WD-40.

    CNSNews.com Headlines 2009

  • I am now diagnosed with mercury toxicity from merthiolate being applied to my gums twice daily for a year as a child.

    Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories 2009

  • April 1986, Use of a diploid cell line for detecting the toxic components in medical immunobiological preparations attesting to the acute toxicity of Thimerosal (merthiolate).

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

  • "... merthiolate in admissible concentrations show the highest degree of CTA [cytotoxic action]."

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

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