The treatment: applications of mercurochrome and hydrogen peroxide to the sores and wet dressings of aluminum acetate.
Quieting suspicions of mercurochrome's usefulness, she declared that a 2% tincture of mercurochrome stops the growth of germs on the human skin better than a 7% tincture of iodine.
You also state that Miss Hill's researches ''quieted the suspicions' of mercurochrome's usefulness.
Comments Wanda Coleman, who passed away on November 20, 2013, at the age of 67, is a well-known American poet who has published 19 books of poetry and fiction including Bathwater Wine, for which she won the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize (the first African-American woman to receive that award), and Mercurochrome, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2001. A seminal figure of literary L ...
Feb. 19, 2014 - San Diego Reader
Bob Dole in CNN ...he was grievously wounded in a later battle, Dole wrote in a 1988 biography that the first of his two Purple Hearts was the kind of wound the Army treated "with Mercurochrome and a Purple Heart."