Word: discoidal
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...germs, insects, rodents and other animals. It is also used for embalming, tanning, printing textiles, dyeing furs, purifying gold, etching metals. As an antiseptic it is useful but dangerous. Hence the Pharmacopoeia commands that tablets of bichloride of mercury intended for antiseptic use be "of an angular shape, not discoid [shape of many medicinal tablets], each having the word 'POISON' and the skull & crossbones design distinctly stamped upon it. . . . The tablets are to be colored blue . . . are to be dispensed in securely stoppered glass containers on the exterior of which is placed a red label bearing the word...
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