
The Valet Did It?
Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes
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Detecting a Heavy Metal Like Mercury
In the 18 hundreds, and in this case, 19 hundred, they have to know what they're looking for. If you give them too much, it's going to be a red flag for a lot of doctors. An 84 year old man survived all that, but i bet that indigestion and diarrhoea from the exposure to mercury was not mild. But how often are these doctors seeing thes types of things? You know, it's only going to be your forensic pathologists who get that concentration at an autopsy.
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