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In a flash I knew that if I added malic acid to the mercury -- perchloride of mercury or corrosive sublimate -- I would have calomel or subchloride of mercury, the only thing that would switch the poison out of my system and Mrs. Boncour's.
The Poisoned Pen 1908
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In a flash I knew that if I added malic acid to the mercury -- perchloride of mercury or corrosive sublimate -- I would have calomel or subchloride of mercury, the only thing that would switch the poison out of my system and Mrs. Boncour's.
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The subchloride of mercury, calomel, is the great British specific; the protochloride of mercury, corrosive sublimate, kills like arsenic, but no chemist could have told us it would be so.
Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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The subchloride of mercury, calomel, is the great British specific; the protochloride of mercury, corrosive sublimate, kills like arsenic, but no chemist could have told us it would be so.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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