SZ/OEMU/2/8/2/4 - [Letter, E. Mellanby to R.E. Stradling, 28/5/42]

Reference code

SZ/OEMU/2/8/2/4

Level of description

Item

Title

[Letter, E. Mellanby to R.E. Stradling, 28/5/42]

Date/s

1942

Quantity & Format

1 leaf Letters (typescript)

Personal name

Gunn, J. A.

Subject

Phenyl mercuric nitrates
Mercury -- Toxicology

Creator

Mellanby, Edward,

Creator

Stradling, Reginald Edward

Administrative/Biographical history

recipient

Scope and content

Encloses a report by Professor Gunn on the toxicity of phenyl mercuric salts, attached [SZ/OEMU/2/8/2/5]. Mellanby quotes from a letter by Gunn explaining that his calculations show the compound to be more toxic than SZ's findings. Gunn also points out that the acute poisoning effects on the cow have been established, but not the "chronic cumulative effects due to the ingestion by the cow of small quantities daily of the mercury compound".

SZ/OEMU/2/8/2/5

SZ - Zuckerman Archive
- SZ/OEMU - Ministry of Home Security, Oxford Extra-Mural Unit
  - SZ/OEMU/2 - [OEMU. Research queries and correspondence, 1940-1962]
    - SZ/OEMU/2/8 - [Experimental work enquiries and correspondence, 1941-1945]
      - SZ/OEMU/2/8/2 - [Experimental work enquiry replies: Ring-binder 1, 1941-1945]
        SZ/OEMU/2/8/2/4 - [Letter, E. Mellanby to R.E. Stradling, 28/5/42]

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