Note 908 — PART IX.—INORGANIC POISONS. (continued 4)
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A singular case is cited by Tardieu (Étude méd.-légal sur l’Empoisonnement), in which a man, supposing he had some minerals containing gold, attempted the extraction by amalgamation with mercury. He used a portable furnace (for the purpose of volatilising the mercury) in a small room, and his wife, who assisted him, suffered from a very well-marked stomatitis and mercurial eruption.