concept
Sulema
sulema
also: сулема, mercuric chloride, corrosive sublimate
Mercuric chloride, a genuinely toxic nineteenth-century antiseptic sometimes misapplied as a folk cure -- the darkly comic final remedy proposed in the diary.
Reading notes
- From the Diary of an Assistant Bookkeeper §19 sulema
Сулема, mercuric chloride (corrosive sublimate), a genuinely toxic nineteenth-century antiseptic sometimes misapplied as a folk cure -- the darkly comic final "remedy" of the diary, offered by the porter and about to be tried.