The Green Dye of Matilda

matilda's illness progresses. She starts convulsing every few minutes and foaming at the eyes, mouth and nose,. On november twentieth, 18 61, matilda dies. The autopsyis performed on her, it's revealed that she's been poisoned with massive amounts of arsenic. It doesn't take long to figure out where the arsenic exposure occurred. A manufacturing company in schweinfort, germany, named the wilhelm dye and white lead company becomes the first to mass produced shield's green dye for use in clothing.