Symptoms of Mercury Poisoning

Did you know that every time we visit a dentist to have a tooth filled he/she is allowed to put a highly toxic substance into our mouths, where it stays and slowly poisons us, causing our immune systems to fail? Each time you have an AMALGAM dental filling, your dentist is putting MERCURY into your mouth. MERCURY IS THE SECOND MOST TOXIC SUBSTANCE KNOWN TO MAN! And it is LEGAL for him to do this, WITHOUT ASKING OUR PERMISSION FIRST!

Abraham Lincoln

Was Abraham Lincoln a Victim of Mercury Poisoning?

Did the responsibilities of the presidential office weigh heavy upon Abraham Lincoln's shoulders? This is highly probable. In fact, it would be surprising if they didn't. A study by the University of Chicago Medical Center reveals that Lincoln may have suffered from bouts of depression, anxiety and insomnia.

Also, during the 1850s, Lincoln became extremely aggressive, even to the point of violence. According to a study published in the summer 2001, issue of Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Lincoln was taking a medication common at that time for depression, known as "Blue Mass." Other ingredients of "blue mass" were liquorice root, rose-water, honey, sugar and rose petals The daily dose of these pills contained over 9000 times the amount of mercury that is considered safe by today's standards. Some of the symptoms as you may know of mercury poisoning are aggression and severe mood swings. Could Lincoln's violence, then, have been caused by the pills? When he stopped taking them, his aggressive behaviour is said to have disappeared.

During the civil war, illness and disease caused more deaths than did the battles. The soldiers died of many different causes, but it should be noted that a commonly prescribed medication was a concoction of mercury and chalk called, again, blue mass. Perhaps the medication was the actual cause of some of the illness and death.

More Civil War soldiers died from diarrhoea than were killed in battle. Indeed, more than twice as many soldiers died from various illnesses than were killed as a result of battle. The soldiers lived in unhealthy conditions: they were often poorly fed and crowded together in unsanitary camps. Epidemics would sweep through encampments and take more fearful tolls than the worst battle. Most diseases were little understood and quite often the treatment administered to the sick soldier did more harm than good. The universal ailment of all soldiers, and the deadliest, had many names. The soldiers would call it "Tennessee trots," "Virginia quick steps," or "the bowel complaint." Doctors labelled it "debilitis", "dysentery", or "diarrhoea."  Treatments for diarrhoea varied according to the doctors' whims and the available medications. A Union soldier admitted to a Philadelphia hospital with the complaint of a three-month case of chronic diarrhea was treated with heavy doses of lead acetate, opium, aromatic sulfuric acid, tincture of opium, silver nitrate, belladonna, calomel, and ipecac. The soldier died after two weeks of treatment. It is no wonder that many soldiers regarded admission to a hospital as a death sentence and would endure a great deal of suffering before resorting to that alternative.

Boston Corbett

THE MAN WHO SHOT LINCOLN'S ASSASSIN

That isn't the end of linking Abraham Lincoln to Mercury Poisoning, the man is linked by another means. As most people know, John Wilkes Booth was the man who assassinated Lincoln; Boston Corbett was the man who killed John Wilkes Booth.

Boston Corbett was born in London in 1832 and emmigrated to the USA with his family. He became a hatter in Troy. He later moved to Boston and continued working as a hatter. Corbett was plagued with mental problems. He became a reborn evangelical Christian while in Boston and this is where he took his new name from. He became a fanatical Christian and reform became his purpose in life. Trying to imitate Jesus, Corbett grew his hair very long. He was known to many people as an 'eccentric'.

In 1858, he already showed signs of a mental problem. The first clear physical symptom he had of mercury poisoning was numbness. One example of his eccentricity took place in July 1858. In order to avoid the temptation of prostitutes he castrated himself with a pair of scissors. (The actual hospital record or this still exists at the Massachusetts General Hospital.) The numbness caused by the mercury poisoning is thought to have helped him to be able to castrate himself without much pain.

Corbett joined the Union arm at the outbreak of the Civil War and finally became a sergeant in the 16th New York Cavalry. In 1865 he was selected as one of 26 cavalrymen to pursue John Wilkes Booth. Corbett and the others cornered Booth in a tobacco barn in Virginia. The barn was set on fire and as Booth moved about inside Corbett shot and killed him. A religious fanatic, Corbett explained his actions by saying "God Almighty directed me." He was technically arrested but charges were later dropped.

Afterwards Corbett returned to being a hatter. in 1887, after overhearing a conversation at the Kansas House of Representatives in Topeka, which mocked the opening prayers, Corbett jumped to his feel and pulled out his revolver. No one was hurt but he was arrested and declared insane and send to Topeka Asylum for the Insane. In 1888 Corbett jumped on a horse that had been left at the entrance to the asylum's grounds and escaped. It is not known for certain what happened to him.

Louisa May Alcott

Author Louisa May Alcott, author or 'Little Women' (a book based on her life growing up with her 3 sisters) amongst other books, died of mercury poisoning.

Louisa was born in Pennsylvania in 1832. During the American Civil War, Louisa was a nurse. She contracted typhoid fever, and although she recovered, she suffered the lasting effects of mercury poisoning. At the time, doctors used Calomel, which was a drug laden with mercury to cure typhoid. With the poisoning beginning to take it effect, Louisa still managed to write her final novel titled 'Jo's Boys', which was published in 1886. Louisa died 2 days after her father, on March 6 1888 in Boston Massachusetts, at the age of 56.

Daphne Zuniga

American Actress
(Melrose Place & Beautiful People)

Daphne Zuniga thought she was one of the healthiest people she knew. She is very health-conscious, does yoga, meditates, hikes, runs and doesn't eat meat. Not being a meat eater she ate a lot of fish for her primary source of protein. Tuna being her favourite as well as yellowtail sushi which she describes as "clean, nutritious, melt-in-your-mouth and yummy. She was eating tuna four times a week. Every time she grilled fish or ordered it in a restaurant she felt that she was making healthy choice.

Daphne had been experiencing an array of mysterious health problems. In addition to severe headaches, she had cramping in her fingers and feet. She also frequently felt "a sort of tingling, as if someone was tickling you, all up and down my body and on my legs, and it got more and more pronounced," she said in a recent interview. She was finding that she was unable to remember her lines even though she'd learned them the night before. She was having crying spells, low-grade depression, loss of memory and brain fog. She would be talking to someone and suddenly become disorientated.

Then in February 2004, after eating sushi four times in one week Daphne broke out in a rash all over her body that sent her to the emergency room of her local hospital. She saw all sorts or doctors but nobody mentioned mercury poisoning. In the October Daphne read an article about how one in six women of childbearing age having elevated mercury levels. This prompted her to get herself tested for mercury poisoning. She was horrified to hear the doctor tell her that the amount of mercury in her body was double the normal 'safe' level.

Daphne immediately stopped eating fish and began a detox programme and dramatically lowered the mercury level. Six months later her symptoms of cramping and tingling were gone, her mind was clearer and her mood had improved. At the present time (October 2005) Daphne is still drinking shakes with protein powder that contains glutathione, a protein that binds to toxins like mercury and helps the body get rid of them.

Lisa Marie Presley

Daughter of Elvis Presley

In the period following her split from Michael Jackson, Lisa Marie's health collapsed. Her body started to deteriorate. She began to have panic attacks and went through 2 years of baffling every doctor from the East to West Coast of America. One week she had asthma..then hypoglycemia, then candida, reflux...a whole host of symptoms. Her gall bladder stopped working and hse had to have an operation to remove it. Her body just fell apart and nobody knew what was wrong with her. She became allergic to many things and lived on a diet of chicken and broccoli for a year.

She then went to see a homeopathic doctor, told him all her symptoms, and he asked her to open her mouth. He told her to get her amalgam fillings removed. She is now experiencing good health once again.

In the dark places where men work with mercury, turning old fillings into new, they treat the volatile metal with great respect. Yet those charged with the responsibility of keeping dentists and their patients informed deny these realities by insisting there is still no final proof of amalgam's harm to humans. But in science, absence of proof is not proof of absence. Ask the men who take the risks.

The History of Mercury Amalgams