…She drinks a cinnabar drink, she drinks a hydrargyrum drink… And oh, look, even in the rare cases where she gets knocked down, she does get up again.
I should note that inducing vomiting if someone swallows mercury is not necessarily the recommended procedure. I googled it to see what the proper medical response should be, and most results just said “call poison control.” But basically, getting it out of the body is a good thing, only in the process of vomiting, it could cause vapors to get in the lungs, which is where the real danger happens. And also, since mercury is probably heavier than most anything else that’s likely to be in someone’s stomach, vomiting may not actually expel all of it. I suspect either a stomach pump or a “ass higher than your head” vomiting position is required, and I imagine Downward Dog vomiting could lead to a lot of stomach acid in the sinuses, which would probably suuuuuck.
So when the doctor here panic-ly says “We need to induce vomiting immediately!” He’s probably going to go run into the next room and grab his “Big Book of Medical” and double check the proper procedure. That is, after he watches Max crack open that blood pressure thingy (sphygmomanometer) and hold him at bay with one arm while she glugs down another slug of quicksilver.
Max doesn’t actually have a whole weird shopping list of exotic nutritional requirements, but she also hasn’t gone around trying a sampler platter from the Periodic Table, either. Mercury is the only one she ever felt the urge to eat. She and quite a few others suspect that she could probably eat a whole lot of stuff that would be bad for humans, but she also isn’t in a hurry to do so. For all she knows, swallowing Antimony or Tantalum could cause her to have a bad case of “organs on the outside” or whatever the opposite of Scurvy is. Which… I guess would be Vitamin C poisoning.
Finally, here we go! I took the suggestion that I just use an existing panel for a starting point, thinking it would save time… I guess it technically did, but a 5 character vote incentive just isn’t the way to go.
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