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by: 166p1 - Thu, 11 Nov 2021 06:19 UTC

Nostradamus used to hover over a bowl full of heated
mercury and numerous other elements.

Mayan and Aztec elites constantly used mercury for
"artistic"/religious endeavours - often in very
large quantities.

Medieval "wizards"/alchemists were also fascinated
with the metal.

There was a reason the Mad Hatter was mad.

Mercury vapor can cause short-term brain dysfunction
and longer-term, extreme, brain damage. Delusions,
visions, madness ... followed by general disintegration.
Leaves big black dead lesions in the cerebral cortex.

The question of the moment - how much history revolved
around mercurial brain damage ? The extreme history
of human sacrifice in central American cultures and
its oft bizarre imagery ... sometimes the insane
policies of some euro governments (no doubt on
their 'wizards' advice) and maybe even Witch Fever -
how much was due to excessive mercury exposure ?