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== Biography ==
=== Early life and mercury poisoning ===
[[File:Carleton Burgan (CP 1659), National Museum of Health and Medicine (3383372640).jpg|thumb|There are no known photographs of Elizabeth Storie, but this 1862 photograph of Carleton Burgan shows the results of similar damage to the mouth and face caused by calomel.]]Elizabeth Storie was born in [[Glasgow]] in July 1818 to "poor but ''respectable'' parents", as she writes in her autobiography:<ref name="Storie1859">{{Cite book |last=Storie |first=Elizabeth |url=https://archive.org/details/autobiographyel00storgoog/ |title=he Autobiography of Elizabeth Storie, A Native of Glasgow, Who Was Subjected to Much Injustice at the Hands of Some Members of the Medical, Legal, and Clerical Professions |publisher=Richard Stobbs |year=1859 |location=Glasgow |language=en}}</ref>{{rp|2}} a cotton weaver and a cotton winder.<ref name=":0" /> When she was four she became sick with a disease she describes as "nettle-rush", which children usually recovered from in a few days.
Storie recovered, but her face was permanently disfigured. Her jaw bones had grown soft, and surgery had to be performed to remove part of the bone. On healing the bone stiffened so she could not eat or drink until a small hole was made allowing her to suck food from a tin.<ref name=Storie1859></ref>{{rp|11}}
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Storie's autobiography does not include a photograph or drawing of her face, but scholars Dana Graham Lai and Holly Faith Nelson argue that the disfigurement was probably similar to the well-documented case of Carleton Burgan, who suffered a similar case of mercury poisoning when he was given calomel to treat an infection in 1862.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Graham Lai |first=Dana |last2=Nelson |first2=Holly Faith |date=2024 |title=“There Was Death in the Powder and He Knew It”: Dis/ability and Tactics of Resistance in the Autobiography of Elizabeth Storie |url=http://journals.openedition.org/etudesecossaises/4925 |journal=Études écossaises |issue=23 |doi=10.4000/etudesecossaises.4925 |issn=1240-1439|doi-access=free }}</ref>
Storie's father sued
=== Adult life ===
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