Mercury Drug began from a bottle of sulfathiazole, which was considered a wonder drug after the war. It was 1945, and Manila had just been liberated from the Japanese occupation. The city was devastated and medicines were scarce and expensive. Mariano Que, who worked in a drugstore before ...
For centuries, mercury was an essential part of many different medicines, such as diuretics, antibacterial agents, antiseptics, and laxatives. In the late 18th century, antisyphilitic agents contained mercury. It was during the 1800s that the phrase "mad as a hatter" was coined, owing to the...
In China and Tibet, mercury use was thought to prolong life, heal fractures, and maintain generally good health, although it is now known that exposure to mercury vapor leads to serious adverse health effects.[24] The first emperor of a unified China, Qín Shǐ Huáng Dì—allegedly buried ...
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Mercury in the form of one of its common ores, cinnabar, remains an important component of Chinese, Tibetan, and Ayurvedic medicine. As problems may arise when these medicines are exported to countries that prohibit the use of mercury in medicines, in recent times, less toxic substitutes have ...
Although the debate about the safety of mercury-containing dental amalgams continues, they are still used today. Use of dental amalgams is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and in 2008 the FDA reviewed the best available scientific evidence to determine whether the low ...
Molecular mechanisms leading to the injury in humans were rarely analyzed, because the liver is embedded in the body and consequently not available for analytical studies due to its behavior as a secret-keeping organ [9], conditions similar to those in human drug-induced liver injury (DILI) [...