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Let me up the stakes to the highest levels of the aristocracy.
Maybe Steve should become King Steve?
And old use for mercury was in curing King's evil or scrofula. The King was meant to be able to touch people and cure them ... it was then found that the mercury that was being prescribed for the syphilis also cured scrofula.
So, my case is that Steve will now have absorbed so much mercury, that just to touch him will cure you of scrofula.
Ergo, King Steve.
Sorry, it's been a stressful day arguing energy politics!
Ed
lol. what you may not realise Ed is that mercury actually did kill some of the royalty. I think one of the king Johns was riddled with the pox but done in by the mercury, according to history not before he went totally insane. No doubt Jonathan will give us a more accurate history lesson.
Incidentally another one was murdered with a red hot poker up his backside. the arsassin's orders was to leave no mark upon his body. So being a king in those days carried it's risks. A few of 'em also got beheaded.