A mercurial compound applied topically as an antiseptic

Usage examples of mercurochrome.

I was a mass of scratches and bruises from my long battle with the motor, and although my medical kit was still in the boat at the bottom of the bay, I found a large bottle of mercurochrome in my bag.

And then afterwards, while Maude dried underneath her breasts and put Mercurochrome on her head and her chest, she still said nothing.

I threw away picture-frame wire, metal book ends, cork coasters, plastic key tags, dusty bottles of Mercurochrome and Vaseline, crusted paintbrushes, caked shoe brushes, clotted correction fluid.

He asked for a bottle of rubbing alcohol, a bottle of Mercurochrome, a box of gauze pads, a roll of gauze, and adhesive tape.

Then he dripped Mercurochrome on it and strapped it with a band-aid from the first-aid kit.

He stood there and she fixed it with water and the red Mercurochrome and you know how that hurts, but he stood there with his yellow hair and strong little body, the arm with the cut held up high by the other arm.

Nellie never paused, washing out shallow, bloody wounds with cold water and swabbing them after with mercurochrome as red as those vivid berries.

Leland quickly picked up a small net and, reaching into the globe, removed the wounded loser and placed him in a small tank of Mercurochrome water.

He had a streak of mercurochrome on his cheek, a red crescent where the moon pin had scratched him.

Poking through it, he found a roll of gauze and tape, and a bottle of Mercurochrome so ancient its cap was rusted.

I was slathering Mercurochrome on the deep scratches that striped my arms and hands.

Then he dripped Mercurochrome on it and strapped it with a band-aid from the first, aid kit.

Three of them were cut pretty badly and needed whole blood transfusions, but the rest were patched up with bandages and Mercurochrome and hauled off in a police van.

She had isopropyl alcohol, peroxide, cotton balls, Band-Aids, Q-Tips, zinc ointment, Bacitracin, an Ace bandage, and a small bottle of Mercurochrome.

He is bandaging wounds, daubing them liberally with Mercurochrome, which makes them look bloodier than ever, but at least disinfects them.