Blue mass
Mercury-based medicine common from the 17th to the 19th centuries / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about an obsolete medical preparation. For the Roman Catholic Blue Mass for law enforcement professionals, see Blue Mass.
Blue mass (also known as blue pill or pilula hydrargyri) was the name of a mercury-based medicine common from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The oldest formula is ascribed to one Barbarossa, in a letter to Francis I of France.[1]
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