Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-06-15 | Page 1 | Drug Clerk is Blown Up

i drug clerk li BROWN UP H j If Attempted to Make a Is; Compound of INitric 1 1 Acid and Mercury tj Middletown, Ct., June 15. Harold Parraalee, a drug dork here, is In a .) hospital today and may lose his sight K ) as the result of an explosion of chemi-B chemi-B cals which he was compounding In ac-jej ac-jej I cordance with a prescription for linl EL ment The prescription called for a W j mixture of quicksilver and nitric acid. m It seemed an unusual compound and Jf the drug clerk asked trie customer m j If he was sure it was right. The cus-M cus-M y tomer assured him that he had used ;' It many times before. 't Parmelee went back to the prescrlp-I prescrlp-I ( tlon counter and poured the two chem- ; Jcals together. Immediately an ex-M ex-M plosion shook the building. Parmelee, VI 1 blinded and injured, staggered from iff f, behind the counter In a. fury of pain A and attacked the young man who had n given the order The fellow took to S' his heels and Parmelee collapsed. m Globules from the mixture had wound-fj wound-fj I ed him as if they were small shot and 1j his eyes were terribly burned. m : oo