RT Journal
A1 HOGAN JF, ROBERTSON J
T1 FLumerin in ophthalmologic complications of syphilis
JF Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology
JO Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology
YR 1925
FD November 1
VO 12
IS 5
SP 700
OP 705
DO 10.1001/archderm.1925.02370110089010
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1925.02370110089010
AB In 1922, Hill, White, Moore and Young1 published an interesting article calling attention to the objections of the more common methods of administrating mercury; that is, by mouth, by inunction, intravenously and intramuscularly. At the same time these workers introduced a new drug, which is the disodium salt of hydroxymercurifluorescein, to which they have given the name "flumerin," and they called attention to the nonirritating local qualities and to its low toxicity, thereby recommending it as a drug which can be used advantageously in the intravenous administration of mercury. The drug which was used in this series of patients was donated to one of us (J. F. H.) by Dr. Hugh H. Young and was intended to be used as a routine in the clinic in place of the mercuric salicylate. It was during this general use that it was accidentally discovered to be of such great value in