Ep 102 Arsenic: Paris Green with Envy
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The History of Arsenic
By the 18 fifties, people had grown suspicious of arsenic laced wall paper and demanded investigations into just how much of a risk it actually posed. But even though these investigations confirmed what many people had already suspected, no changes were really made to the man cturing process to try to reduce exposure. If someone did get sick from arsenic exposure in one of these factories, it was usually blamed on the worker, op you didn't clean your hands well enough. Or, oh, you shouldn't have licked your paint brush, which was reminiscent of the radium girls ratya. The attitude at the time was, well, if didn't want to work with arsenic laced flowers, then
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