Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.

For my father's sake, I thought I must keep up appearances, but the food stuck in my throat, and I could not swallow another mouthful.

Goe great with Tygers, Dragons, Wolues, and Beares, / Teeme with new Monſters, whom thy vpward face / Hath to the Marbled Manſion all aboue / Neuer preſented.

In contrast to this, we have tried to exemplify the multiple roles of consortia of ribozymatic agents emerging from compatible stem-loop structures that work together to build RNA viruses and create infection-derived noncoding RNA networks without which life cannot function.