That is true about Mercury, even hat workers in the
1800's, went quite mad from using mercury as solvent
to soften hat materials on the rims. If you all
remember the mad hatter from Allison and Wonderland,
it was theoried he went mad from mercury poisoning.

Mercury was one of the first banned chemicals during
the industrial revolution. Due to the madness it
brought to the people's lives, particularly the
hatters
who used to dunk the material with their hands.





--- Steve <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Gee John, sorry most accounts I have seen say he
> died in his sleep.
> While most acknowledge that he did have periods of
> insomnia and
> extreme aggitation (amongst other things) the common
> belief was his
> work in alchemy and mercury in particular, not
> caffiene.
>
> As for mormons and caffiene, well one of my former
> bosses was a
> mormon and he drank Coca-cola...last I checked it
> did contain
> caffiene.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> --- John Foster <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > The caffiene content of coffee is greater than
> tea. Here is why. In
> > the drip
> > method the coffee is not comminuted as much as
> tea. For instance in
> > espresso
> > coffee the caffiene content is 5 times greater:
> >
> > http://www.cosic.org/caffeine/index.html
> >
> > Espresso (30 ml cup) has 40 mg of caffiene
> >
> > Tea (150 ml cup) has 40 mg of caffiene
> >
> > Coffee has five times more caffiene than coffee.
> So it really
> > depends on how
> > the coffee is ground and how it is prepared.
> >
> > Isaac Newton according to Carolyn Merchant in the
> "Death of Nature"
> > drank so
> > much coffee that he suffered from insomnia, or
> caffiene anxiety,
> > which
> > contributed to his death. Zombies are living dead.
> Coffee could
> > prevent the
> > living from dying with their eyes closed. She also
> writes that the
> > scientific revolution was caused in part by the
> heavy ingestion of
> > coffee;
> > coffee originally came from Africa.
> >
> > Francis Bacon also drank lots of coffee
> apparently...and wrote the
> > Masculine
> > Conception of Time....Did men conceive time?
> >
> > Well if everyone is awake and alert, and sleep is
> purely overated,
> > then
> > Reason can flourish around the clock..the reason
> for this
> > proposition is
> > that if many people stay up in the night, then
> they have only their
> > imaginations to use for diversions. Thus it is
> plausible that with
> > the
> > modern heated home, lots of cadfeee, or black tea,
> that this kick
> > started
> > the scientific revolution.
> >
> > Coffee increases alertness and Finnish people
> apparently drink the
> > most
> > coffee in the world (not a rumour but I did read
> this once in an
> > article)
> > presumably because of the long winter nights (more
> Seasonally
> > Affective
> > Disorder) there.
> >
> > Caffiene inducted death is indicated by symptoms
> found in the
> > living dead
> > who appear to die with eye lids fully open, or
> resemble Zombies on
> > Banistropis.  Well the effect of caffiene would be
> similar to
> > Banistropis,
> > which makes people into zombies, or the living
> dead.
> >
> > If coffee contributed to the scientific revolution
> by increasing
> > alertness
> > and synaptic connections within the cerebrum, then
> can some
> > environmental
> > and ethical issues be resolved by taking or
> ingesting more
> > caffiene? Can the
> > reverse of taking no caffiene reduce environmental
> impacts.
> >
> > It was reported in a scientific journal that men
> who drink coffee
> > have sperm
> > that swim faster. Do they therefore have more
> children than those
> > who do not
> > drink coffee. And if they did not drink coffee,
> then would they go
> > to sleep
> > longer, and therefore not engage as often? Of
> course both partners
> > must be
> > more alert....so what about not drinking coffee
> and tea to help the
> > environment?
> >
> > It seems plausible that coffee, tea, and yerba
> matte are the cause
> > of
> > overpopulation, and environmental distruction. A
> form of temporary
> > insanity...but if so then can caffiene be used to
> reverse the
> > process of
> > overpopulation. Look at the Seventh Day
> Adventists, and Mormons who
> > don't
> > engage at all in drinking coffee and tea; they are
> such a small
> > segment of
> > society, and they seem to have no problems
> overpopulating their own
> > valleys.
> >
> > Coffee drinkers are more fertile in many ways: in
> science, in
> > reproduction,
> > and in fertilizing lawns....
> >
> > john foster
>
>
> =====
> "In a nutshell, he [Steve] is 100% unadulterated
> evil. I do not believe in a 'Satan', but this man is
> as close to 'the real McCoy' as they come."
> --Jamey Lee West
>
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