DuckHairback wrote:
Developed a mysterious salve that claimed to completely cure the wearer of skin-weasels, an irritating infestation of microscopic mustelids that ripped through London's theatre-going classes in the 1840s. A confirmed case was actually considered the marker of a cultured person with those able to provide a doctor's note listed in the society pages of The Morning Post. The salve itself was only available through a curious little apothecary on Black Friars Lane until it fell foul of the 1858 Medical Act. Interestingly, cases of skin-weasels decreased dramatically once the salve had been withdrawn from sale.
Was the precocious only son of a famously wealthy and eccentric New York couple. His father, a noted egyptologist, and his mother, a pioneering genetic scientist, explained away his questions about his dark good looks, which were in such marked contrast to his parents' Nordic fairness. However, a drunken elderly servant one day hinted at a different explanation- that he was in fact the product of a secret and illegal cloning experiment involving the preserved DNA from the mummy of an Ancient Egyptian high priest. He was stunned- could he really be the son of a mummy? Anxious to discover the truth, he sent a sample of his DNA to be tested. The DNA test results confirmed his suspicions- he was, indeed, a mummy's boy!