Cases of mercurial poisoning sometimes follow disinfection of cattle stables with the usual 1 to 1,000 solution of mercuric chlorid.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
In all these cases of partial decomposition some of the mercurous chloride-the calomel-is changed into soluble mercuric chloride and metallic mercury.
"The History of the Medical Department of Transylvania University"
Robert Peter
Other poisonous preparations are red precipitate, white precipitate, mercuric nitrate, the cyanide and potassio-mercuric iodide.
"Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology"
W. G. Aitchison Robertson