FATAL RESULTS FROM SUBCUTANEOUS INJECTION OF METALLIC MERCURY.

Self-administration of mercury by subcutaneous injection.

An unmarried woman of 21 developed diabetes mellitus in 1957 when aged 12. Her subsequent management was often complicated by diabetic ketoacidosis and coma, eventually traced to failure to administer her insulin correctly. At a number of centres in the London area she received psychiatric treatment, with a diagnosis of inadequate immature personality and psychopathic features. In 1962, at the ...

Subcutaneous Injection of Mercury: “Warding Off Evil”

Deliberate injection of mercury, especially subcutaneous injection, is rare but is seen in psychiatric patients, individuals who attempt suicide, those who are accidentally injected, and boxers who wish to build muscle bulk. Metallic mercury plays a major role in ethnic folk medicine. Neurologic and renal complications can result from high systemic levels of mercury, and subcutaneous injection ...

Soft tissue resection after auto-aggressive subcutaneous and intramuscular metallic mercury injection: A case report

Self-administration of metallic mercury by intravenous injection.

sigmoid regions and occasionally in the caecum. It results from pressure necrosis of the colonic wall from impacted faeces. Constipation is the pre-eminent symptom in all cases and straining at stool the precipitating event. Drug-induced faecal impaction is becoming more prevalent and is not uncommon in opiate addicts. Both faecal impaction and perforation have been recently reported in renal t...

Death from paraquat after subcutaneous injection.

Gramoxone is a commercial formulation of a herbicide containing the di-metho sulphate salt of paraquat (1,1'-dimethyl-4, 4'-dipyridilium). Bullivant (1966) reported that up to July 1964 one case of paraquat poisoning had occurred in a child in Ireland. He described two additional cases in men in 1966. The first was that of a 28-year-old man who drank half a glass of 20% paraquat solution; a day...