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Merthiolate Pharm.|mɜːˈθaɪəleɪt| Also merthiolate. [f. mercurithiosalicylate, f. mercurico- + thio- + salicylate n.] A proprietary name (in the U.S.) for thiomersal, sodium ethyl mercurithiosalicylate.
1928Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 6 Nov. 14/2 Eli Lilly and Company... Merthiolate for medicine or pharmaceutical preparation—viz., sodium mercurithiosalicylate or organic mercury compound solution useful in antisepsis. 1931Amer. Jrnl. Hygiene XIII. 310 Merthiolate is found to have certain unusual properties..which makes it well adapted to tissue antisepsis. 1957F. & R. Lockridge Tangled Cord (1959) xii. 150 Hilda Graham..had found merthiolate in a medicine cabinet in the bathroom and poured it on Ferris's foot. 1973Nature 21/28 Dec. 521/2 The supernatant was decanted, a sample removed for protein estimation by the method of Lowry, and stored at 4°C with the addition of 1/10,000 merthiolate as preservative. |