Biblical Text-Writing May Have Poisoned Monks.
26/09/2008
June 27, 2008 -- Medieval bones from six different Danish cemeteries reveal that monks who wrote Biblical texts and other religious materials may have been exposed to toxic mercury, which was used to formulate just one of their ink colors: red.
Funny how licking a brush with mercury could intoxicate the monks but doctors and dentists fail to see the connection between mercury in amalgams and ill health.
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