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1900 English beer poisoning

  • Comment: This is given in many sources, some of which I have included in the article, and some which I had omitted. (Mainly medical articles from the people who discovered the illness.) Copping is likely the most solid one. Groves and Whitnall's history website also states it. The figure of 4 months is cited by pretty much every article except for the court documents which state that the contaminated acid was delivered in March 1900, 9 months before the correct diagnosis. I found it prudent to change "4" to "several" here, as although the sources are not contradictory, I have doubts about how the outbreak's starting date was found. (ie. by the doctors who noticed something was off)

Created by Acebulf (talk). Self-nominated at 03:02, 19 February 2018 (UTC).

  • Symbol question.svg Template:Ping, thank you for writing an enjoyable story. Character count of article, newness all ok. Character count of hook too long. Some wording edited in article. Consider a few more but not major problem at all. Sources ok. Have you seen the original BMJ article, fyi? Reynolds All sources say neuritis. Neuropathy is relatively new in terminology and not mentioned in your sources, but is correct to link to. There is a link to neuritis too. However, there is no neurosis (which implies mental/psychiatric disturbance). Please clarify.Whispyhistory (talk) 19:55, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
  • Template:Ping Thank you for reviewing the article. You're absolutely correct, I wrote "neurosis" instead of "neuritis", which is clearly wrong. I have corrected the hook above, and the article.
As for the BMJ article, I had a look through it early in the process of researching the article. If I recall correctly, most of the relevant parts have been reported by Copping, but I might have a second glance at it now that you mention it.
As for the hook, I counted 180 characters, but I'm uncertain if there are other restrictions on the length that I'm not aware of. I will try to come up with something that is a bit shorter as to fit within those guidelines. Acebulf (talk) 22:37, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

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