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Here's another one that focuses a bit more on Rome: https://culturacolectiva.com/history/plumbism-disease-that-might-have-sparked-deliriums-in-roman-emperors ht
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Here's another one that focuses a bit more on Rome: https://culturacolectiva.com/history/plumbism-disease-that-might-have-sparked-deliriums-in-roman-emperors https://culturacolectiva.com/history/plumbism-disease-that-m...
> Known as plumbism (or saturnism in Latin as a reference both to lead and plumb, but also to the god Saturn known to be mentally unbalanced and aggressive), this was a very well-known disease by ancient alchemists though it wasn’t really attributed to Roman emperors.