It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster in its infancy
Unlike modern pills, these hard antimony pills didn__ dissolve in the intestines, and the pills were considered so valuable that people rooted through fecal matter to retrieve and reuse them. Some lucky families even passed down laxatives from father to son. Perhaps for this reason, antimony found heavy work as a medicine, although it__ actually toxic. Mozart probably died from taking too much to combat a severe fever.
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Unlike modern pills, these hard antimony pills didn__ dissolve in the intestines, and the pills were considered so valuable that people rooted through fecal matter to retrieve and reuse them. Some lucky families even passed down laxatives from father to son. Perhaps for this reason, antimony found heavy work as a medicine, although it__ actually toxic. Mozart probably died from taking too much to combat a severe fever.
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