Posted on 12/17/2009 8:58:45 AM PST by RDTF
LONDON — A British medical journal has published findings saying a mistress of 16th-century French King Henry II may have died from consuming too much drinkable gold.
When French experts dug up the remains of Diane de Poitiers last year, they found high levels of gold in her hair.
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Now that's a Cougar!
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It's good to be the King.
Isn’t gold supposed to be totally inert??
Apparantly, gold is totally in-her.
“Gooooollld-Feengah!”
If they ever did this story as a movie, it could be “Gooold-Stomachkkkk!”
I know..... I'm sorry..... It was a long flight..... I'm tired!
:)
re #7: Great minds.....
re #7: Great minds.....
heavy metal poisoning...
I love to read about this time period. In fact, I am now reading a book about Mary, Queen of Scots, the daughter-in-law of Henry II. The whole situation of Henry, Diane, and Catherine de Medici was quite interesting.
Chemically inert, pretty much.
I’m not a medical expert; but I question the conclusion. Just like the whole Silicone breast implant fiasco, Silicone is inert, and gazillions of dollars were paid out to court cases that were decided by emotion and bad science, rather than scientific fact.
I don’t see how Gold could be a poison, unless it behaves like a Heavy Metal (ie mercury) and simply plugs up the system. If Gold is toxic, then there are liquours with gold flakes in them, on the market that are deadly - and I find that hard to believe.
This phenomonom has been well documented and even continues today. Look at this recent police tape...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG2xjCH9cTI
Starts at 0:52...
Was she huffing gold paint?
Don’t you mean “Garnet and Gold” paint? ;)
And the name of the book is? I love reading of that time too.
No element is totally inert, not even the famously inert noble gasses. Gold is pretty inert, but it is also poisonous, just like lead, silver, mercury, arsenic, and most other metals.
I realized she would be a “little” older, but, still, my ego was expecting a bit of a “hottie.”
She was 71, with VERY “English” teeth, totally gray hair, no makeup.... and said that unfortunately, she never even made it to the Fountainbleu Hotel in Miami. All her scenes were blue screened at a studio in England!
Dreams died that day. I felt sooooo old!
LOL!!!
Quervo Gold?
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