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. = = = ----- Original Message ----- From: louise renton <louise.ren...@gmail.com> Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 13:58 Subject: [Histonet] help for silver To: Patsy Ruegg <pru...@ihctech.net>, Histonet@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 > <pru...@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 > > > > > > > > Patsy Ruegg, HT(ASCP)QIHC > > IHCtech, LLC > > Fitzsimmons BioScience Park > > 12635 Montview Blvd. Suite 215 > > Aurora, CO 80010 > > P-720-859-4060 > > F-720-859-4110 > > wk email pru...@ihctech.net > > web site www.ihctech.net > > > > > > > > > > This email is confidential and intended solely for the use of > the Person(s) > > ('the intended recipient') to whom it was addressed. Any views > or opinions > > presented are solely those of the author. It may contain > information that > > is > > privileged & confidential within the meaning of applicable > law. Accordingly > > any dissemination, distribution, copying, or other use of this > message, or > > any of its contents, by any person other than the intended > recipient may > > constitute a breach of civil or criminal law and is strictly > prohibited. If > > you are NOT the intended recipient please contact the sender > and dispose of > > this e-mail as soon as possible. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Histonet mailing list > > Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > > http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet > > > > > > -- > Louise Renton > Bone Research Unit > University of the Witwatersrand > Johannesburg > South Africa > +27 11 717 2298 (tel & fax) > 073 5574456 (emergencies only) > "There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls". > George Carlin > No trees were killed in the sending of this message. > However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced. > _______________________________________________ > Histonet mailing list > Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet