Ah,
Many thanks for your fine responses all, how horrible it is!
Bjarne
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] 265: To dye for: Poison: "Paris green"
In a message dated 3/20/2006 2:18:48 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yes, there was/is a poison pigment made from arsenic
that was used extensively in wallpaper in the 1800's.
And there were stories from the day, that sound like what we call "urban
legend" today, of people wearing garments colored with those pigments and
getting deathly ill.
Ann Wass
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