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Oh my goodness!!! I just learned this interesting tidbit today!!!!
Didja know.............
More than 100 years ago, the felt hat makers of England used mercury to stabilize wool. Most of them eventually were poisoned by the fumes, as demonstrated by the Mad Hatter in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Breathing mercury fumes over time will cause erethism, a disorder characterized by nervousness, irritability, and strange personality changes???
I love the Alice in Wonderland movie, with Johnny Depp as the mad hatter. It all makes sense to me now!!!
More than 100 years ago, the felt hat makers of England used mercury to stabilize wool. Most of them eventually were poisoned by the fumes, as demonstrated by the Mad Hatter in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Breathing mercury fumes over time will cause erethism, a disorder characterized by nervousness, irritability, and strange personality changes???
Oh my goodness!!! I just learned this interesting tidbit today!!!!
Didja know.............
erethism, a disorder characterized by nervousness, irritability, and strange personality changes???[/color][/b]
Well, good, I've never liked the psychiatric labels hurled at me, through the years, to explain my nervousness, irritability and strange personality changes, so the next time anyone calls me a bi-polar schizophrenic, I'll set the record straight! So, I'm erethetic then! Sounds much better!
And, maybe, that first car I owned, a 1952 Mercury played a part in my condition.
Maybe some antique hat collector owned it before I bought it!
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