Alkoholismus durch
Quecksilber im Gehirn
Persistent mercury in nerve cells 16 years after metallic mercury poisoning.
Hargreaves RJ, Evans
JG, Janota I, Magos L, Cavanagh JB.
BIBRA, Carshalton,
Surrey.
A male subject,
after exposure to mercury metal at work in 1968, developed classical signs of mercurialism from which he made
a slow clinical recovery. He subsequently developed psychoneurotic symptoms and became an alcoholic; he never returned to work and died in 1984. No histological changes relevant to mercury intoxication were found in the brain,
but staining by Danscher & Schroeder's method for mercury
showed many positively staining lysosomal dense bodies in a large proportion of
nerve cells, and the presence of mercury was confirmed by elemental
X-ray analysis. The mercury content
of the brain was increased, much of it being present
in colloidal form.
Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol. 1988 Nov-Dec;14(6):443-52. Links