[HN Gopher] Why the Bronte sisters may have died so young (2019)
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Why the Bronte sisters may have died so young (2019)
Author : lermontov
Score : 16 points
Date : 2021-05-22 02:28 UTC (20 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.yorkshirepost.co.uk)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.yorkshirepost.co.uk)
| kalia35 wrote:
| Very nice piece of information!
| DoreenMichele wrote:
| We really need to get a lot more savvy about environmental
| factors in illness. I think we still have a lot of room to grow
| in that regard.
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| I mean, kind of "in theory," we know this stuff. In actual
| practice, nah, not really in some kind of applied fashion.
| deepsun wrote:
| So why? Article doesn't answer the question.
| forkerenok wrote:
| Maybe it's more prosaic than what you expected (I did), but
| it's there:
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| > Haworth's drinking water, they believe, came from springs
| which were contaminated by rainwater that had soaked through
| the church graveyard - which was close to the parsonage where
| the Brontes lived. Long-term exposure to the bacterial
| infections this caused could have weakened the constitutions of
| the siblings and those of their neighbours, whose average
| lifespan was only around 26.
| QuesnayJr wrote:
| Because their water source was contaminated by rainwater that
| ran through a graveyard. I don't know if that's a plausible
| claim, but that's the claim.
| kalia35 wrote:
| Yes it does! It's because their water was polluted by the close
| proximity of the graveyard.
| hirundo wrote:
| I'm a scifi guy but have read Jane Eyre three times. I don't
| think I can define the appeal. Or why I connect Jane with Beth
| Harmon and perhaps Lisbeth Salandar.
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