[HN Gopher] Digitized Silhouette Portraits Shed Light on 19th Ce...
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       Digitized Silhouette Portraits Shed Light on 19th Century Life
        
       Author : samclemens
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2023-04-29 19:15 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.nytimes.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com)
        
       | noizejoy wrote:
       | > It's unclear how the arsenic ended up on the book's pages, but
       | it was considered safe in small doses in the 19th century, and
       | was often found in food, medicine and even common goods like face
       | powder. An arsenic-based green pigment was used in wallpaper in
       | Britain at the time.
       | 
       | I've loved very old books since childhood. But it had never
       | crossed my mind that they could contain physical (chemical)
       | danger.
       | 
       | Let's just hope that the book in the article is a real
       | statistical outlier.
        
       | BobMcBob wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/Rh6Ut
        
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