[Histonet] help for silver

[John Kiernan]

Some 35 years ago, a person older than I told me the most effective way to get silver stains off skin was to rub the affected part with slightly dampened mercuric chloride powder. He may have been right; I never tried it! I've tried things like iodine-thiosulphate and Farmer's reducer (ferricyanide + thiosulphate mixture) but my experience is that they do very little. The blackened epidermis flakes off, usually in a couple of days.
 
John Kiernan
Anatomy, UWO
London, Canada.
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----- Original Message -----
From: louise renton <louise.renton <@t> gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 13:58
Subject: [Histonet] help for silver
To: Patsy Ruegg <pruegg <@t> ihctech.net>, Histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu

> I know we used Sodium thiosulphate and alcoholic iodine, but i cannot
> remember which ne first...I think the iodine??
> 
> John Kiernan - help please??
> 
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Patsy Ruegg 
> <pruegg <@t> ihctech.net> wrote:
> 
> >  After you stop laughing seriously I need some help here, 
> apparently I got
> > my
> > fingers in some silver nitrate yesterday and touched my face 
> under my nose
> > over my lip and now I have black spots that won't come 
> off.  I have done
> > this on my hands before but never on my face.  So far I 
> have tried soaking
> > a
> > cloth in hydrogen peroxide hoping to bleach it with no luck, I 
> even tried
> > putting some gold chloride on it to see if I could "tone" it 
> down, to no
> > avail.  Any ideas?  Make up only goes so far and 
> lasts so long.
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
> >
> > Patsy
> >
> >
> >
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