[at-l] Mercurochrome swabs

[thornel@attglobal.net (W F Thorneloe)]

The real stuff hasn't been available for decades. This is now little more 
than a red stained solution. I remember well getting bicycling injuries 
treated with the old stuff. I don't know if I cried more from the injury or 
from the treatment.

But the mercury never hurt me all that muuuuuu.......

OrangeBug
<anyone else remember the line from Tommy Boy about eating paint chips?>

At 08:15 PM 3/7/2002 +0000, ATRerunner wrote:
>I'm guessing that mercurachrome (sp?) has been hard to find both because
>it destroys healthy tissue as well as bacteria, and there are better
>ways to cleanse wounds that don't involve the various liabilities
>associated with mercury.