SC - Concoction of Cooks

[Cheriti Watts]

In a message dated 4/7/2001 3:28:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
audreybmorin at yahoo.com writes: 

> And they thought it was poison?

If they ate it and it killed them then in some measure it was poison, at 
least to them. I react badly to seafood, eventually I'll smother if I don't 
get medication. We assume it's an iodine allergy. Iodine is a necessary 
nutrient, but too much for me is a poison. I'd imagine too much for anyone is 
a poison, it's just more obvious with me.

> And that would explain why it only happened to
>  rich people also...

It was only mostly reported if it was rich people. I imagine people died of 
unknown causes that were poor too. Remember, Jews were accused of poisoning 
the wells during the black death too. Not everyone who died in those towns 
was rich.

Corwyn


We need justice. We need toleration, honesty and moral courage. These are 
modern virtues without which we cannot hope to control the forces science has 
let loose among us. --I.A.R. Wylie