I've read this also in a novel. Apparently in the mid to late 1800's the arsenic was considered good for you, in those small amounts. A woman murdered her husband by withholding it from her husband. Same book also mentioned that it was used in perserving bodies during the American civil war era, and that the arsenic could leech from those bodies into the ground, to the well near by and thereby poisoning someone who drank said water a century later.
alex On 3/21/06, Gail & Scott Finke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It does stay in the body, that's how they test for it. I read a murder > mystery once based on the idea that if you feed someone small bits of > arsenic every day, they die if you withhold it! I don't know if that one > is > true or not. > > Gail Finke > > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
