Mercurial and Xanthine Diuretics in Chronic Congestive Heart Failure

Value of Mercaptomerin and Intravenous Aminophylline in Cardiac Oedema Resistant to Other Diuretics

“…No similar large-scale clinical assessment appears to have been recorded, although many 'years have passed since early descriptions of potentiation of mercurial diuresis by intravenous aminophylline (Goodman et al, 1942;Weston and Escher, 1948 ;Vogl, 1953), and this may possibly account for the less widespread use of the combination than its value would seem to merit.…”