[936] Voit, Physiol. chem. Unters., Augsburg, 1857.
Ullmann[937] found most mercury in the following order:—Kidneys, liver, spleen, a small quantity in the stomach, no mercury in the small intestine, but some in the large intestine; small weighable quantities in the heart and skeletal muscles, also in the lungs; but no mercury, when the dose was small, in brain, the salivary glands, abdominal glands, thyroid glands, the bile, or the bones.
[937] Chem. Centr., 1892, ii. 941.
The main channel by which absorbed mercury passes out of the body is the kidneys, whilst mercurial compounds of small solubility are in great part excreted by the bowel. A. Bynssen,[938] after experimenting with mercuric chloride (giving ·015 to ·15 grm., with a little morphine hydrochlorate), came to the conclusion that it could be detected in the urine about two hours, and in the saliva about four hours, after its administration; he considered that the elimination was finished in twenty-four hours.
[938] Journal de l’Anat. et de Physiol., 1872, No. 5, p. 500. On the separation of mercury by the urine, see also Salkowsky in Virchow’s Archiv, 1866.