Absinthe Research Fund
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Back in 2012 I went to England to get my Masters degree. I wrote my Masters thesis on absinthe, and found a lot of intersting information while I did my research, including the possibility that the condition known as 'absinthism', which is widely discredited as being fictional, may have been attributable to a continuing instance of food contamination that no one realized.
I have ample 19th century documents which help in support of my theory, including clear confusion between plant species, shipping logs where only the poisonous plant is native, reference to the poisonous botanical being used, rather than the proper one... the list goes on.
It is enough that I would like to run laboratory experiments to determine whether or not it is possible that such a contaminant would have been noticed and whether or not the toxin comes out in disstilation to the level that would be poisonous to the people drinking it.
The samples that I need are expensive though, and I don't have the extra money I need. Please help!
Thank you. :)
I have ample 19th century documents which help in support of my theory, including clear confusion between plant species, shipping logs where only the poisonous plant is native, reference to the poisonous botanical being used, rather than the proper one... the list goes on.
It is enough that I would like to run laboratory experiments to determine whether or not it is possible that such a contaminant would have been noticed and whether or not the toxin comes out in disstilation to the level that would be poisonous to the people drinking it.
The samples that I need are expensive though, and I don't have the extra money I need. Please help!
Thank you. :)
Organizer
Fiona Rairigh
Organizer
Everett, WA
