This is really sad.
How George Washington died — horribly
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3634471/posts
Sad story I hadn’t heard before. Shakespeare plays talk of Mercury quite often. That is if my memory serves me.LOL
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/01/050111091800.htm
****Were Shakespeare’s remains to be examined today, evidence of infection might be obtained by examining the shinbones for the damage typical of an advanced case of syphilis or by testing for elevated levels of mercury that could indicate STD treatment. Until then, “it’s something that can’t be proven or disproven,” Dr. Ross said, but Shakespeare’s own warning on his gravestone (“Blessed be the man that spares these stones,/And cursed be he that moves my bones”) might give pause to those who would try to find out.