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The urge to write became a question of lancing a boil: I was full of poisonous matter and needed to let it out.
And the reply of the Magdeburg physician Magnus Hundt to this question was widely shared even among authors from the later part of the sixteenth century and the early seventeenth century: "According to the complexion of the body, and the quality and quantity of the poisonous matter … some get rid of the disease soon, some slowly, and many drag themselves to the grave".
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This pain-vapor was rooted in the poisonous disease-matter itself.
In the first stage, the amount of the poisonous pox-matter was thought to be still very small and thus rather powerless in comparison to the body's nature.
A sample taken at the time found discharge which contained "poisonous and noxious" matter.
Samples taken on both occasions confirmed that the discharge contained poisonous, noxious or polluting matter which was potentially harmful to fish life in the stream.
If a candidate can find a single scapegoat for all of the electorate's problems and say they'll eliminate that using language they understand, voters will listen no matter how poisonous the language is.
According to the theories of the era, an infectious disease was the result of the inhalation of miasma (poisonous vapor) of decomposing animal matter, either in the form of aerial emanations or of local pollution of the drinking water by infiltration of such substances.
Miasmas manifested themselves as bad smells, and were thought to be invisible poisonous particles arising out of decaying matter.
Many of these people simply do not realise that all drugs – no matter how beneficial – are poisonous at some level.
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