People of a certain age may remember Merthiolate and Mercurochrome in the household medicine chest. Whenever someone skinned a knee or scraped an elbow, one of these topical antiseptics was often ...
People of a certain age may remember Merthiolate and Mercurochrome in the household medicine chest. Whenever someone skinned a knee or scraped an elbow, one of these topical antiseptics was often ...
Tincture of Merthiolate is widely used as a skin antiseptic and a preoperative preparation. This tincture is a 1:1000 alcohol acetone aqueous solution of sodium ethyl mercurithiosalicylate.