Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A compound in which two equivalents of chlorine are combined with a base: as, a bichlorid of mercury.
- noun An abbreviation of
bichlorid of mercury , mercuric chlorid or corrosive sublimate: often carelessly used in reference to this substance as an antiseptic and disinfectant.
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Examples
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Disinfection with this material should be supervised by a veterinarian or other person trained in the handling of poisonous drugs and chemicals, as the bichlorid is a powerful, corrosive poison.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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Bottles that hold these poisons -- such as bichlorid of mercury, lysol, carbolic acid, laudanum, paregoric, belladonna, etc. -- should be so different from the other bottles in the medicine chest that if one should reach for them with his eyes shut or in the dark he would at once recognize that he had hold of a poison bottle.
The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler
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On discontinuing the bath, cover the foot with gauze saturated with a 1 to 1,000 bichlorid solution.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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Both here and abroad opium-eaters have discovered the fact that, in an inveterate case, where opium fails to act on the brain through the exhausted tissues of the stomach, bichlorid of mercury in combination with the dose behaves like a _mordant_ in the presence of a dye, and, so to speak, _precipitates_ opium upon the calloused surfaces of the mucous and nervous layers.
The Opium Habit Horace B. Day
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-- Put on a pack saturated with a solution of bichlorid of mercury 1 to 1,000 and let it remain two days.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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The foot is then placed in a bichlorid bath several hours daily, for from two to five days, depending upon whether or not soreness is shown.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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The following morning, his head thoroughly shampooed, his nails manicured, a second soap wash is given followed by a weak bichlorid bath (1 to 10,000 solution) which is followed by an alcohol rub.
The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler
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Prepare also a bichlorid of mercury solution as follows: Hydrarg.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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Immediately after the birth of the baby and the expulsion of the afterbirth, the thighs and vulva are cleansed as follows: Into a basin of warm, boiled water are dropped four small antiseptic tablets of bichlorid of mercury; this gives a proper antiseptic wash.
The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler
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Irrigate with the full pint of formaldehyd solution first, then follow with six or eight ounces of the bichlorid solution.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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