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Continued From First Page, senic was found in it, and he substituted silk lining, when his headaches did not occur. (Dr. Stickler reports in: New York Medical Journal, May 20, 1586, that of 551 deaths among hatters in Orange and Newark, 367 were from lung diseases, a per cent. of 66.6.) The Boston Herald put its interviewers on the scent and one day published the following cases, all contributed by “a prominent chemist,” who first remarked, “there are a great many cases to-day where people complain of that tired feel ing, that, in my humble opinion, are due to arsenical poisoning.’ His first case cited was that of a woman who was sick every spring and fall, traced to arsenical wall paper in her spare room, never used by her but cleaned twice a year. An other where, though the arsenical sick ness was present in the family, the ar senic could not be found, till finally he tore off the paper and analyzed the old paper over which the last paper put on had been laid, when he found plenty of it. In a nursery where there was a sick child he finally found the arsenic in a frieze of peacock blue—ten grains per one yard. A singular case was that of Miss Daggett, of Commonwealth avenue, who was always sick when at home, but much better when away. It was finally found that the walls of the room in which she slept were papered with arsenical paper, and when this was removed the young lady got well. He also declares that laundry people some times use arsenic to render clothes beauti fully white. A watch repairer was se verely poisioned by a green eye-shade, which he wore much, but recovered when the discovery of arsenic was made. A woman ate some prunes, which she took from a grocer’s display, and was made very sick, the illness being traced to the green price card, which had be come moistened, the arsenic in it affect ing the fruit, his chemist was asked: “Do you think the danger is greater from wall-paper than from other sources? And he replied: “Yes, be cause wall-paper is 50 universally used. And it is found not only in cheap paper, though it is more common there. I have sometimes found it in paper costing twenty to thirty cents a roll.
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Wed, Jun 17, 1891
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