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Mercury has been measured in Danish medieval bones interred at several cemeteries. Bone diagenesis is estimated to play an insignificant role based on measurements of soil samples taken vertically and horizontally away from the thighbone at three graves. Our study shows that mercury-containing medicine has been administered in 79% of the leprosy cases and 40% of the syphilis cases. A substantial number...