one of the things I love most about the victorians is that basically everything they consumed was poison, and their response to it was entirely and always to just draw the person selling it as a cool ass skeleton
if you did anything dangerous, like ‘take a boat’ or ‘wear a corset’ or ‘apply literal pounds of arsenic based makeup’ you would just turn into a skeleton
vaccinate your kids? skeleton’s gonna grab em. don’t vaccinate your kids? you better believe that’s a skeleton