Lead poisoning is to Ancient Rome AS high GPRS & GSM radiation damage it to Europeans.
Perhaps Euros will disappear due to no lead in their pencils.
Euro regs allow SAR=2X US SAR. Korea addopted lower US SAR. China is on the war toward adopting
lower SARs. Recent China articles show very defensive advertising in China by GSM equipment companies
defending their SAR rating.
epa.gov
""The result, according to many modern scholars,
was the death by slow poisoning of the greatest
empire the world has ever known. Symptoms of
"plumbism" or lead poisoning were already
apparent as early as the first century B.C. Julius
Caesar for all his sexual ramblings was unable to
beget more than one known offspring. Caesar
Augustus, his successor, displayed not only total
sterility but also a cold in difference to sex. ""
""The criticism is apparent even to a non-classicist. In De Architectura, for instance, Vitruvius,
who wrote during the time of Augustus, indicates that the Romans knew of the danger of lead
pipes and, consequently, that terra cotta was preferred.
"Water from clay pipes is much more wholesome than that which is conducted
through lead pipes, because lead is found to be harmful for the reason that white lead
[lead acetate, "cerussa"] is derived from it, and this is said to be hurtful to the human
system. Hence, if what is produced from it is harmful, no doubt the thing itself is not
wholesome....Hence, water ought by no means to be conducted in lead pipes, if we
want to have it wholesome. That the taste is better when it comes from clay pipes
may be proved by everyday life, for though our tables are loaded with silver vessels,
yet everybody uses earthenware for the sake of purity of taste." ""
""THE LEAD CONNECTIOIN, OR WHY ROME FELL
By Albert Donnay, M.H.S., MCS Referral & Resources
All rights reserved.
( March-April 96, Blazing Tattles) Falling sperm count is a
critical side effect of lead poisoning. Although surely not the
most important source of infertility today, it was a huge problem
for the ruling classes of the Roman Empire, especially in the
later periods.
The upper classes, much more than the lower, made extensive
use of lead water pipes, lead cooking and eating utensils,
lead-based cosmetics and medicines, and lead contaminated alcoholic
drinks, especially wine. This resulted in their widespread lead
poisoning and infertility, from which flowed much of the debauchery
for which the fall of Rome was famous. Multiple marriages became
common and didn't last long, as men of the upper classes kept
seeking out new women, desperately looking for those who might be
able to bear them male heirs or even any healthy children. (Lead
poisoning of either the mother or the father can produce serious
birth and developmental defects.) Of course, they did this without
realizing that their own toxic sperm was a big part of the problem.
The government began offering all kinds of incentives to upper
class families to have more children, because the falling birth
rate made it very hard to find enough "well qualified" (i.e.,
ruling class) people to rule over the far flung empire. Their
relatively unpoisoned slaves and other lower classes, who could
only afford a few of the lead exposures enjoyed by the upper class,
did not suffer the same high rates of infertility, which must have
drove the ruling families nuts . . . It certainly drove them to
sleep around a lot (hence the Roman Orgy), but all to no avail.""
""The ancient Romans used rot-proof, rustproof, cheap-to-make, easy-to-use
lead pipe for their plumbing. In fact, “plumber” comes from the Latin word
plumbum, and the chemical symbol for lead is Pb to this day. There is
speculation as to whether the decline of the Roman Empire, complete with its
civil wars, corruption and mad emperors, was the result of chronic lead
poisoning.
Geologic cores in the arctic and elsewhere have shown that the ancient
Romans polluted as much as half of the world with lead many centuries ago.
Smelting metal ores often drives off lead fumes, and they travel with the
weather. And autopsies of the corpses of ancient Romans have revealed
unusually high quantities of lead in their bodies. "" |
