Mercury was used as a common treatment for Syphilis or "The French Disease" (bad bad bad Frenchies). It has antiseptic properties, but is also very neurotoxic... So the side effects of the treatment were sometimes worse than the disease itself...
Use of Mercury in modern history (antiseptics, toothfillings) is totally banned only since 1998 !
At first I thought you spoke of Mercury... Gandt, and I didn't grasp how you connected him with this matter...
Besides, I must protest energically against this name of French Disease!
Actually this sickness was called the Italian disease , or the Napolitan disease, by the French, the Spanish disease by the Portuguese and Dutch, the English disease by the Scots, the Canton disease or Chinese ulcer by the Japanese... and , yes, the French disease by Italians, Spaniards, Russians, Germans, Britons and Poles....
Fromwhat we can conclude :
- that severe diseases and evils are obviously supposed to come necessarily from outside our respectiveborders
- that it could more accurately have been named the " universal disease"
- that we are lucky to live in sl, where this disease is not transmitted...
Mercury was used as a common treatment for Syphilis or "The French Disease" (bad bad bad Frenchies). It has antiseptic properties, but is also very neurotoxic... So the side effects of the treatment were sometimes worse than the disease itself...
Use of Mercury in modern history (antiseptics, toothfillings) is totally banned only since 1998 !
At first I thought you spoke of Mercury... Gandt, and I didn't grasp how you connected him with this matter...
Besides, I must protest energically against this name of French Disease!
Actually this sickness was called the Italian disease , or the Napolitan disease, by the French, the Spanish disease by the Portuguese and Dutch, the English disease by the Scots, the Canton disease or Chinese ulcer by the Japanese... and , yes, the French disease by Italians, Spaniards, Russians, Germans, Britons and Poles....
Fromwhat we can conclude :
- that severe diseases and evils are obviously supposed to come necessarily from outside our respectiveborders
- that it could more accurately have been named the " universal disease"
- that we are lucky to live in sl, where this disease is not transmitted...
This might explain a great many things.