The answer is Syphilis

  • Bertuccio@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    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.

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      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