Our domestic poisons; or, the poisonous effects of certain dyes & colours : (especially those containing arsenic) used in domestic fabrics / By Henry Carr.

  • Carr, Henry.
Date:
1883
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Credit: Our domestic poisons; or, the poisonous effects of certain dyes & colours : (especially those containing arsenic) used in domestic fabrics / By Henry Carr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    dysentery, although running from the nose and dry cough were not absent/' The following case is forwarded by Dr. Hodges^ of Belfast, Professor of Chemistry to the Chemico- Agricultural Society of Ulster, who has given great attention to this subject:— * I beg to give you the following particulars in reference to the effects produced by the green wall- papers which 3'^ou so kindly analyzed for me a few months ago. I bought them last November to paper the walls of the children's day and night nurseries from a shop in Belfast. I got a paper-hanger to put them up, and he got sick before he had half finished the job, and left his son to finish it out. He has since told me that some green papers always alfect him in this way. The paper had not been on ten days before two of the children (there were three in all) began to lose their vigour and animation. They had all been particularly healthy before. One little boy of three and a half years old was the first to show it. His throat became much ulcerated, and he got languid and weak. He was put to sleep in another room for about a fortnight, and his strength and vigour came back again; whereas our eldest little girl, who was still in the nursery, remained as she had been. We had no suspicion at the time that the paper had anything to do with it. On the little boy returning to sleep in the room with the green paper, he again fell back into the