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In Reply to: A Chef in Love: Georgian charm, the most unusual Tchaikovsky and the Revolutionary Scum... posted by Victor Khomenko on August 13, 1999 at 06:20:37:
From the good "quarto" version of Hamlet (1604-1605):"Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole
With juice of cursed hebona in a vial,
And in the porches of my ear did pour
The leperous distilment, whose effect
Holds such an enmity with blood of man
That swift as quicksilver it courses through
The natural gates and alleys of the body..."So it was plant toxin, but its action was as swift as quicksilver = mercury.
I await the attorneys for Shakespeare's estate to sue me for copyright infringement.
BTW Victor, "Beseiged" just opened today in "Slo-hio", so I'll look for that cracked plaster.
"Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole
With juice of cursed hebona in a vial,
And in the porches of my ear did pour
The leperous distilment, whose effect
Holds such an enmity with blood of man
That swift as quicksilver it courses through
The natural gates and alleys of the body..."That's very close to what I remember. In Russian it was called "belena" plant.
So, what's the deal with the thermometers?
The mercury thermometer was invented by Toricelli in 1644 (after Hamlet). Before that, they were water and glass. Maybe she wanted him to eat the glass and die of internal hemorrhages.
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