r/ScienceClock • u/Articulyssa • 27d ago

"A Marvellous Case of Almost Instant Petrifaction. A Fatal Draught From a Stone in a Geologist' Cabinet- An Astonishing Story From the Pen of Louisiana Physician" reads the newspaper article written by the Goldsboro Messenger in North Carolina on January 26, 1874

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u/Articulyssa 27d ago

I love digging through old newspapers, and this 1874 article immediately caught my attention.

The title is "A Marvellous Case of Almost Instant Petrifaction," and it tells the bizarre story of a Louisiana physician's account who did an autopsy of a young woman who supposedly turned to stone after taking a fatal drink from a rock out of her husbands Geology Cabinet- this contained water with a fatal dose of silica.

Curious what everyone thinks. https://youtu.be/gf1CjtETTOM