The most crucial way that individuals are subjected to mercury is by feeding on fish and shellfish that have significant levels of methylmercury, a very harmful type of mercury, within their tissues. A significantly less frequent way persons are exposed to mercury is respiration mercury vapor.Mercury exposure may result in developmental problems f

An early scientific study of mercury poisoning was in 1923–1926 through the German inorganic chemist, Alfred Stock, who himself turned poisoned, together with his colleagues, by breathing mercury vapor which was remaining introduced by his laboratory gear—diffusion pumps, float valves, and manometers—all of which contained mercury, and in add