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A fact from Elizabeth Storie appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 May 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Elizabeth Storie's doctor poured nitric acid into her mouth, causing her teeth to fall out?
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... that Elizabeth Storie's doctor poured nitric acid into her mouth, causing her teeth to fall out?
Source: Elizabeth Storie, The Autobiography of Elizabeth Storie, A Native of Glasgow, Who Was Subjected to Much Injustice at the Hands of Some Members of the Medical, Legal, and Clerical Professions (Glasgow: Richard Stobbs, 1859)
ALT1: ... that calomel was a popular medicine that caused mercury poisoning? Source: Haller, John S. “Samson of the Materia Medica: Medical Theory and the Use and Abuse of Calomel: In Nineteenth Century America.” Pharmacy in History, vol. 13, no. 2, 1971, pp. 67–76. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41108706. Accessed 1 May 2024.
ALT2: ... that a disabled Scottish seamstress published her autobiography in 1859? Source: Elizabeth Storie, The Autobiography of Elizabeth Storie, A Native of Glasgow, Who Was Subjected to Much Injustice at the Hands of Some Members of the Medical, Legal, and Clerical Professions (Glasgow: Richard Stobbs, 1859)
ALT3: ... that a 19th century autobiography by a disabled, working-class Scotswoman combines horror and tales of her spiritual awakening with court documents to convince her readers? Source: Graham Lai, Dana; Nelson, Holly Faith (2024). ""There Was Death in the Powder and He Knew It": Dis/ability and Tactics of Resistance in the Autobiography of Elizabeth Storie". Études écossaises (23). doi:10.4000/etudesecossaises.4925. ISSN 1240-1439.
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Comment: I'm completely new to DYK so I'm not sure that these hooks are the best, but I think the topic of the article is interesting - it's about Elizabeth Stories, one of the first disabled women and working class women to publish her autobiography in the UK. The story of how she was disfigured by a doctor dosing her with calomel (mercury) and nitric acid is horrific.