Calomel

'Calomel' -- Sufficient has been said of this dangerous medicine in the course of the present work.

The Dog William Youatt 1811

Feed upon a vegetable diet, also give one grain of Calomel, which is particularly useful in a case of sluggish liver in poultry.

The Veterinarian Charles James Korinek

“And why was I born in the Calomel days, and why did I have all that Calomel given me?”

The Haunted House by Charles Dickens | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004

Paul Bragg recounts how, after five years of four annual 7-day fasts, he went on a 10-day fast, on the seventh day of which, ‘I had a terrific bowel evacuation, and at the end of this evacuation, I felt a heavy cool sensation in my rectum and out passed a third of a cup of quicksilver [mercury] from the Calomel [a medication] that I had taken during my childhood.’

The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity Daniel Reid 1989

Shellman came up in the evening he is prety well soaked. wanted an order for a shirt I gave little George a doase Calomel last nigh 5 grains and caster oyl this morning he has discharged worms and is quite peart.

Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839, 1961

I have taken a doace Calomel at 9 Oclock recd a letter from Henry by yeasterdays mail his letter dated 15th. turned Franklins colt from the little one. took a doace oyl.

Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839, 1961

Calomel should be given in one-eighth-grain doses, repeated every three-quarters of an hour for eight or twelve doses, until the bowel is thoroughly cleaned out.

The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies

Calomel and all other preparations of mercury are to be especially avoided, as a mercurial medicine is apt to weaken the system, and sometimes even to produce

Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis

Calomel, a valuable medicine, and vermilion, a color, are both preparations of mercury.

A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition. Anonymous

He maintained that Prometheus typified the universal allopathic patient, and that the vulture for ever gnawing his liver was Calomel.

Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough