There is a reasonably new book called "The Elements of Murder, A History
of Poison" by John Emsley, ISBN: 0-19-280599-1. I heard an interview
with the author on the radio last year and was intrigued enough to track
down a copy. I haven't had time to read it yet. The interview did
cover some of the uses of asesnic in history. Not only was it used for
coloring paper and fabric, but it was also used in a food coloring.
The book explores the history of certain elements and their toxic
effects on the body.
Costume content: Hatters went mad because of mercury poisoning.
Jeanine
Alexandria Doyle wrote:
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
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