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Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound Of The Baskervilles. In this novel the muzzle of a gigantic hound was covered with phosphorus. Is it possible? It seems phosphorus is the poisonous substance and can damage eyes. White phosphorus is extremely toxic to alive beings. Could a hound live with such shining mask? :umm:
 
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asoul said:
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound Of The Baskervilles. In this novel the muzzle of a gigantic hound was covered with phosphorus. Is it possible? It seems phosphorus is the poisonous substance and can damage eyes. White phosphorus is extremely toxic to alive beings. Could a hound live with such shining mask? :umm:
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This article mentions numerous phosphorous compounds, not all of which are toxic...

Phosphorus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
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asoul said:
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound Of The Baskervilles. In this novel the muzzle of a gigantic hound was covered with phosphorus. Is it possible? It seems phosphorus is the poisonous substance and can damage eyes. White phosphorus is extremely toxic to alive beings. Could a hound live with such shining mask? :umm:
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Yes i think so. Not everything phosphorus is poison and even so it is a slow pioison. If you're not continously exposed to it, which the dog in the story wasn't, he should at least survive quite a while. Of course the owner will never pass as a friend of our pets but that is another story.
 
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I would like to ask the other question about phosphorus... I have doubts whether to do it...but I am very interested in the answer and I can find nothing in Internet on this subject. Well... Between the lines in one ancient work I have read -- "To drop small portion of phosphorus in eyes". It sounds very strangely and dangerously. Maybe I chose wrong words? But then I recalled about ancient mysterious "shining" people (ideological ancestors of Illuminates? Sons of the Dawn?). So who knows where is truth?

Maybe someone heard something about similar procedure with phosphorus? In reality... or in fictions...
 
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kingricefan said:
Or just plain FUN! =D
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As to Doyles using it in Baskervilles Hound lets not forget he was, after all, a trained MD that had had a functioning practice before he gave it up for writing fulltime. He might have taken the so called artistic licence with certain things but things that were directly related to his own education and occupation in life i doubt he would have taken great licences with.
 
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...he was, after all, a trained MD that had had a functioning practice before he gave it up for writing fulltime...
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He was a freemason also... And I know that freemasons and brothers of other secret societies described (and describe now!) parts of their mysterious knowledge in different art works including literature. This is one of their obligations.
 
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He was a freemason also... And I know that freemasons and brothers of other secret societies described (and describe now!) parts of their mysterious knowledge in different art works including literature. This is one of their obligations.
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Yeah.. And he was a spiritist too. Always followed the advice from an old mesopotamian philosopher living in the city of Ur around 2000 bc. Called him Phineas. Not a very secret society since everybody know about them. And he wrote a lot of articles about stuff like that. But Holmes was what he made his money on and he didn't even like him. Holmes was necessary for him to live as he wanted and spend money on spiritists and freemasons and other ventures but kept Holmes relatively clean of such things. The hound of Baskerville is based on a legend he heard once when on vacation in, i think it was Devon. First he intended to write just about the legend and make a story out of it but found he needed a strong leading character so picked up Holmes from his box.
 
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Yeah.. And he was a spiritist too. Always followed the advice from an old mesopotamian philosopher living in the city of Ur around 2000 bc. Called him Phineas. Not a very secret society since everybody know about them. And he wrote a lot of articles about stuff like that. But Holmes was what he made his money on and he didn't even like him. Holmes was necessary for him to live as he wanted and spend money on spiritists and freemasons and other ventures but kept Holmes relatively clean of such things. The hound of Baskerville is based on a legend he heard once when on vacation in, i think it was Devon. First he intended to write just about the legend and make a story out of it but found he needed a strong leading character so picked up Holmes from his box.
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Thank you. Very interesting post. :thumbs_up:
 
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asoul said:
Don't take it as offensive words. But whether was cross-eye spread in your region? :umm: I saw this word nearly to "phosphorus" also and I don't know is it casualness or a hint.
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Lol yeah we all wander around going off in all directions lol. No I never knew of anyone with their eyes crossed.
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I don't know what either of you are talking about. :(
 
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