The quicksilver prize: Mercury vapor poisoning aboard HMS Triumph and HMS Phipps

Neurology

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 963-966

  Doherty, Michael J ^a  

^a Epilepsy Center   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; HYPERSALIVATION; LUNG DISEASE; MERCURIALISM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARALYSIS; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SHIP; SKIN DISEASE; SYMPTOM; TREMOR; VAPOR;

EID: 1842614343     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000118789.33171.47     Document Type: Review

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