The answer is Syphilis
To be fair, wearing the hats were fine. You were only in danger if you made hats.
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2024
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Especially if it a bloody cursed hat made of witch skin.
I know Poe wrote on a writing desk. Which is why a raven is like one.
What's that about hats?
Mad as a hatter, mercury poisoning.
Mercury was used to stiffen hats for a long time. That is also the background for the “mat hatters”.
Bow do you stiffen something with mercury?
Very carefully.
Mats with hats?
And don't forget everybody's favorite seasoning, lead!
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the mind altering substances Oscar Wilde accidentally consumed pale in comparison to the ones he knowingly consumed.
Yeah most of these poisons people were being exposed to were in trace dosages. Enough to slowly kill you over time but not enough to notice. Unless you were an actual hatter, then the chemicals you would get from hats would not be in trace amounts
Yeah, the Victorian's came up with "Too beautiful to die", "Life from other pieces", and "Death ages a picture, but the model lives" - the entire periods fiction becomes about survival as a fun treat like being fabulously wealthy is to generations after Boomers.
a fun treat like being financially solvent is to generations after Boomers.
FTFY
Yah, and all the mid 1900 writers had was developmental lead poisoning from gas fumes.
SMH, amateurs.
And what left for us? Microplastics? What a shame.
Born too late for lead and mercury poisoning.
Born too early for death by nanobots.
Born just in time for testicles filled with plastic.
So much plastic in the testicles that you cum silly strings
A man can dream.
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