merthiolate en · NOUN
Etymology
Genericized trademark.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Synonym of thiomersal.
On the first day he came home cut and poisoned by the coral and with a dozen sea-egg spines in his side. Quarrel grinned and treated the wounds with merthiolate and Milton [sic].
1954, Ian Fleming, “The Undertaker's Wind”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 188: