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Review by Chrissi (010202) Rating (8/10) Review
by Chrissi It was discovered way back when, only the thirteenth element to be isolated. Well, they took it all rather too seriously, and because the way to get it was all rather gross, it was very expensive, but when someone suggested that it could prevent you from catching the plague, well... If you had the money, then you bought it, which in turn, made it even more expensive. Through a rather warped logic, the physicians of the time decided that as amounts of phosphorous are found in the brain, then maybe it could cure any ailments, as well as maybe increasing brainpower. But it has never been proven to be of any benefit, and in spite of this it was found in brain tonics right into this century. The strange thing about this is that phosphorous is actually toxic to us, and so any improvement that you may have experienced was actually because you had stopped poisoning yourself with the stuff in the first place! An
excellent popular science title that on the surface sounds a bizarre
subject for a book that isn't a chemistry text (unless you are
a mad chemist of course). However, it reads very well and is most
enjoyable... apart from the urine bits! |
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