Biblical Text-Writing May Have Poisoned Monks

Discovery News ^ | 6-27-2008 | Jennifer Viegas

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[gorush]

The treatments administered to George Washington at the end of his life included mercury...it may have killed him as well.

[ninonitti]

The treatments administered to George Washington at the end of his life included mercury...it may have killed him as well.

But did it cause an erection that lasted for more than 4 hours?

[The KG9 Kid]

Didn’t I read an Umberto Eco novel about this years ago?

[vietvet67]

[decimon]

...a previously undocumented disease, called FOS...

Didn't know that is a disease. Just figured they are FOS.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

“mercury-containing medicine had been administered to ... 35 percent with syphilis.”

‘Two minutes with venus, two years with mercury’

[tickmeister]

I can remember collecting Mercury out of old thermometers when I was a kid just to mess around with it. How come I ain’t dead?

[rightazrain]

Gee, maybe we want to think again about those new curlique light bulbs, and the banning of incandescent?

[Petronski]

Friggin’ hilarious.

[Petronski]

How come I ain’t dead?

You could eat the mercury and not really be harmed, as I recall.

But vaporous mercury is inhaled.

[tet68]

I received an “A” in incunabula, my teacher Miss Johannson
told me lick the brush more and I DID!!

[kittymyrib]

You mean the same mercury we are required to put in our light bulbs now? Just wait till millions of cfls hit our landfills in the next decade.

[blam]

I posted about CFL's (Mercury Bulbs) over here:

Researchers Create Mercury-Absorbent Container Linings For Broken CFLs

Now, see post #19 for my conclusion.

[TYVets]

Algore invented toxic mercury?

[Oatka]

Didn’t I read an Umberto Eco novel about this years ago?

I thought there would be DOZENS of references to NOTR. Bought the DVD not so much for the story, interesting as it was, but for the bizarre collection of first-rate foreign character actors as well as Sean Connery and Ron Perlman (Salvatore).

penitenze agite!

[The KG9 Kid]

Where did you get the DVD? I've wanted it for a long time, but it's a German locale encoding.

It's in USA locale now?

[William Tell]

From the article: ... one should really not touch, or much less rub, the incunabulum

I think they taught us in school that it would make you blind ... or grow hair on your palms ... or something ...

[SunkenCiv]

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