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Mercury therapy
- Earliest therapy against syphilis.
- Long tradition in Arab medicine as therapy for a wide range of skin afflictions.
- Popularity waxed/waned, but remained the most generally widespread therapy through the 19th century.
- Appealed to Galenists also, since it produced copious saliva, thereby expelling phlegm.
- This is a classic sign of mercury poisoning.
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