Surma is a traditional eye cosmetic and eye-cure of the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent. It is made from antimony suiphide and may contain lead as an accidental impurity remaining in antimony suiphide or as an intentional adulterant. Ingestion of lead through constant use of surma can pose a serious health hazard. This study is an attempt to assess the lead content of surma in forty separate samples...

can be considered cured and the antimony treatment discontinued. From time to time since the introduction of the treatment with the antimony tartrates various rules have been suggested for the course of treatment that is necessary to effect a cure; these rules have become more and more elastic and there is usually a very decided tendency towards prolongation of the course. Sir Leonard Rogers fi...

Toxic effects of sulfide come from a poisoning of a number of enzymes, especially cytochrome c oxidase, which catalyzes the terminal step in mitochondrial aerobic respiration. Despite this, some estuarine plants live in sulfide-rich sediments. We hypothesized estuarine and flooding-tolerant species might be more tolerant of sulfide compared to upland species, and this was tested by measures of ...

Interactions between iron and sulfide in domestic wastewater from a gravity sewer were investigated with particular emphasis on redox cycling of iron and iron sulfide formation. The concentration ranges of iron and total sulfide in the experiments were 0.4-5.4mgFeL(-1) and 0-5.1mgSL(-1), respectively. During anaerobic conditions, iron reduction kinetics were investigated and reduction rates amo...

Under the title " Experimental Studies ill Bilharzia Therapy ($. spindalis)Dr. Hamilton Fairley, in the August 1924 issue of the Indian Medical Gazette, published details of a comparative investigation of the action of antimony tartrate and emetine on goats experimentally infected with 6". spindalis. Dr. Fairley found emetine superior to antimony tartrate as a specific cure for the goats and wr...

Some organisms that survive in environments rich in hydrogen sulfide possess specific metabolic pathways for sulfide oxidation and subsequent use of reducing equivalents in oxidative phosphorylation, a process called chemolithoheterotrophy. This process is dependent on ambient oxygen partial pressure and environmental sulfide exposure. To define accurately the kinetics of sulfide metabolism and...

UNLABELLED Lymphoscintigraphy allows functional assessment of lymphatic transport and depiction of regional lymph nodes, is fast and nontraumatic and has no known side effects. We retrospectively analyzed lymphoscintigraphic studies to determine their efficacy in the investigation of chyluria, chyloperitoneum and chylothorax. METHODS Twenty-one whole-body lymphoscintigrams using 99mTc-antimon...

In the Indian Medical Gazette for June 1927, Chopra, Gupta, and David described a new serum test for kala-azar. These workers observed that when certain organic compounds of antimony were brought in contact with the serum from kala-azar patients in a miniature testtube, a thick flocculent precipitate was formed at the junction of the two; whereas with nonkala-azar sera no such precipitation occ...

A new processing technique for a few alkali antimonide photocathodes is described. This technique does not require an initial antimony layer as in the conventional techniques. Electron microscopic examination of the antimony film shows that the antimony film is affected by ambient gases, and the improvement of senistivity which results in this technique is thought to be due to the absence of it...

Methods for direct determination of antimony and chromium in human serum by Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (GF AAS) were proposed in this work. The samples were diluted in 1:1 with nitric acid 1% v/v and Triton® X-100 0.1% v/v. The optimization of the instrumental conditions was done using a multivariate approach. A factorial design (2) was employed to investigate the tendency ...