Chronic mercury poisoning: Report of two siblings
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Mercury Poisoning in Children (A report of two patients)
THE SUGGESTION IN 1948 that mercury poisoning was the principal cause of pink disease (acrodynia) in children (Warkany and Hubbard, 1948; Fanconi and Botezn, 1948) resulted in the withdrawal from sale of all mercury containing teething powders in the United Kingdom. There followed a dramatic decline in the reported frequency of the disease (Dathan and Harvey, 1965) and during the past twenty ye...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0019-5278
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5278.64610