There is small excuse for having bichloride of mercury tablets around the house nowadays as an antiseptic. There is even less excuse for swallowing the deadly blue tablets by accident. Some drug manufacturers make them coffin-shaped. Others put them in bottles with round bottoms or covered with sandpaper. One uses small wooden caskets. The adult who takes bichloride of mercury usually wants to die, is usually successful. But in future he may be thwarted by an antidote reported by Dr. Sanford M. Rosenthal of U. S. Public Health Service last fortnight in...
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