Re: A bit OT--Louisa May Alcott and Hg

[Guest guest]

Thank you for sharing. It is sad that the human race just can't

get it together.

Why is it that money is the ruler of everything. It makes me sick.

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> Hey everyone,

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> In the summer of '05 I posted about a book called The Peabody

Sisters. The book was about , and Sophia Peabody who

made their mark on history by being Transcendentalists in Boston

during the 1800s. My maiden name is Peabody and it appears that I

am related to these sisters so the book was very interesting to me.

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> The book explains that both Sophia and Peabody had a

nervous disposition and suffered from tremors and headaches. At

times they had to be in complete silence and darkness to deal with

their illnesses. The book goes on to theorize that and Sophia

were mercury poisoned by the Calomel teething powder that they used

as infants. I almost fainted at the thought that Sophia and

were sixth generation Peabodies and my son is a fifteenth generation

Peabody and both are suffering from the same problem.

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> The Peabody Sisters were great friends with Ralph Waldo Emerson,

iel Hawthorne (Sophia married him), Henry Thoreau,

Horace Mann ( married him) and Louisa May Alcott. It was

speculated that Little Women was based loosely on the Peabody

Sisters.

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> Recently a new book came out on Louisa May Alcott. It was

reviewed in the Washington Post last month.

> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-

dyn/content/article/2006/09/07/AR2006090701600_2.html

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> The theme of this book about Louisa May Alcott and the above

book review is that the more things change, the more they stay the

same. Here is the excerpt of this article that I found fascinating:

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> Louisa died early from mercury poisoning (used to treat her

typhoid fever), and drug companies still preserve their vaccines

with mercury because it's cheap.

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> So I hope I did not bore you all to death with this history.

(Could it be that my Asperger's is showing?) But I just found this

interesting and sad. As far as we have come as a nation since the

mid-1800s, our public health system continues to fail us. At the

very least, it is hopeful that the author of this book review

realizes that mercury has no business being in vaccines and the only

reason it is used is because of the bottom line.

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> Take care,

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> Becky Estepp

> TACA

> Parent Support & Liaison

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[Guest guest]

That's really interesting Becky. I'm glad you emailed everyone about it.