Mentioned in this book, one hundred articles on PubMed, even a redirect on Wikipedia, but of course no entry for it, much less the horrific story involved. Like why so many children died, horribly, or were crippled. A multiple country endemic "disease" caused by giving infants and children toxic mercury, and it isn't notable enough to have an article on Wikipedia?
You won't find the story of Pink Disease on Wikipedia. You will find a ridiculous paragraph called Infantile Acrodynia, which in no way actually matches the historic record. See this paper for more info Or any of my multiple blog posts about it.
(edit May 2015) There is now an article on Acrodynia, but no story of Pink disease.
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Pink disease (mercury poisoning) and William A. Hammond
Hammond was the Surgeon General in 1863 and knew good and damn well the mercury wasn't helping, and in fact was making things worse. He banned the use of mercury, so he was of course framed and removed from office by fraud. His scientific understanding could have prevented Pink disease, almost a hundred years before the "medical experts" realized they were poisoning children. There is no article for Pink disease on Wikipedia.
On 4 May 1863 Hammond banned the mercury compound calomel from army supplies, as he believed it to be neither safe nor effective (he was later proved correct). He thought it dangerous to make an already debilitated patient vomit.[2][26] A "Calomel Rebellion" ensued,[27] as many of his colleagues had no alternative treatments and resented the move as an infringement on their liberty of practice. Hammond's arrogant nature did not help him solve the problem,[28] and his relations with Secretary of War Stanton became strained. On 3 September 1863 he was sent on a protracted "inspection tour" to the South,[29] which effectively removed him from office. Joseph Barnes, a friend of Stanton's and his personal physician, became acting Surgeon General.[30]
Hammond demanded to be either reinstated or court-martialed. A court-martial found him guilty of "irregularities" in the purchase of medical furniture (Stanton "used false data").[31][32] Hammond was dismissed on 18 August 1864.[10][29]
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