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>> I wonder if the kid in the far left of the picture survived.
@FairieMae: Sure he did. The school nurse (or a teacher) slapped some merthiolate on it and gave him a sucker. That cured many aches/cuts/scratches back then!
@Retired_Engineer: Mercurochrome...because we all needed to absorb some mercury as kids.
@ET: Yeah, that may have been that red stuff! I just remember that almost every kid had some red stains on their skin!
@Retired_Engineer: AKA - Monkey Blood, but you knew that. Application stung so much that you sucked it up next time you scraped anything.They both contained mercury. Mercurochrome is a trade name for merbromin, a compound containing mercury
and bromine. Merthiolate is a trade name for thimerosal, a compound containing
mercury and sodium.
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