Typical symptoms of mercury poisoning include mental retardation, loss of balance, tremors, blindness and loss of hearing. 水银中毒的典型症状包括精神迟缓，平衡失调，颤抖，失明，失聪。
Later analyses suggested that Tycho died because of mercury poisoning but that's not nearly as interesting as the original story. 虽然还有很多人认为这仅仅是个传说，他真正的死因是由于水银中毒，但是似乎人们更乐于接受前面的说法。
