Self injection with mercury.
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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 ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.299.6715.1567