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Syphilis - The Great Imitator - Extra History - #1
🕑 Added 2020-08-26 17:30:59 +0000 UTCDo not see if mercury is right for you, it is not right for anyone, it is poison.
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David Blair
I was torn between laughter and wanting to gouge my eyes/ears out. Not because of the mercury, medical product ads just do that to me.
Bill Lemmond
Zoe is our hero (because "heroine" is now old-fashioned, and looks/sounds too much like a really dangerous substance/bad idea)! I love her increasingly vivid and very appropriate reactions to a heavy metal (and Mercury, of all things!) as a topical or (Horrors!) internal medicine. Wow. Some day, please do a follow-up on Mercury, as a study of the thoughts that led people to think it was a good medicine. Studying the thoughts could help us avoid similar mistakes (e.g. the decades we insisted that stomach ulcers were stress-induced, and couldn't be related to bacterial infection).
George Simpson
It's "elephantiasis"
Christopher Percy
Ah, yes, my favourite medicine: Mercury.
Josh Brown
Gotta admit, the "ad" at the end got me good. I think I laughed for a solid 4-5 minutes. Well done EC team, well done.
