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    50 a physician's memoranda.

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    tlie Times on tlie melancholy death , of Matilda Sclieurer , a _gir _£ proved to have been poisoned by enierald green while engaged in

    the manufacture of artificial flowers , was brought under the notice of the Ladies' Sanitary Association ; and Mr . Paul ,, the surgeon wno

    had been called upon the inquest , was asked to give particular information to the Committee . The Honorary Secretaries—the

    Hon . Mrs . "Win .. Cowper , and Mrs . Sutherland—then applied to Professor Hofmann for an analysis of the poison , and finally prefaced

    by a short letter , jointly signed , the following statement , addressed bProfessor Hofmann to the Hon . Wm . Cowper . We trust that the

    y subject will not be allowed to "drop until the practice of using this poison is discontinued . "We reprint Professor Hofmann ' s statement

    to enforce it upon our readers , and also as being easy of reference in our pages .

    " Royal College of Chemistry , Jan . 25 , 1862 . the " Dear green Sir coloring , —In accordance matter of with the artificial your wishes leaves , I from have a examined lady ' s head carefull -dress y

    w of considerable hich " It you arsenic is well have quantities known color sent ( me that Schweinfurt . . An such experienced leaves reen generall ) eye b readil its y conta bri y llian reco in arsen c gnizes the ic , the and intens presence often ity in of

    which an is as yet unrivalled by any g other green y . However y , , should there remain the slihtest doubtan experiment of the simplest kind would establish

    the fact . In g most cases it , would be sufficient to burn such a leaf in order at once to perceive the garlic odour which characterizes the presence of

    arsenic . t the hat " presence In a ball a dozen -wreath of of ten the usual grains leaves ly of contains sent white me about arsenic anal fifty y . sis has I of lear these po n in from t leaves ed ou some t . Thus lad an y avera , fr which a iends lad g y -

    wears in her hair more than forty grains of white arsenic , —a quantity _,, a This f t leas tak is t , no onl in exaggeration y app partl rop y - i col ate ored , doses for , o h , th e would l eaves onl be w y hi variegated sufficient ch you sent to . poison In me consequence were twenty , some persons of of them your ..

    head inquiries -dresses , I have of ladies been led and latel I y observe to pay that more the than usual leaves attention are to often the muc " h The larg question er and m , how ore dee , far p arsenic ly colored -dyed than wre those aths may which green be I prejudicial received . to health , connected with the discussionraised of lat

    b human is as intimatel the to the chemist system y influence . and This the which influence hysician arsenic has The -colored been alleged , doubted so paperhang frequentl effect on has various y ings been exert grounds attributed upon e , years both the to ,

    y p . pound the of the development , organic to which constituents the of arsenietted white arsenic of the hy , drogen paper by the , and or action some the of paste other the , dam volatile mig p ht of possibl arsenic the w y all com have , or - and often varied

    g tions have iven proved rise and . as Accurate the it inadmissibility so often experiments happens of the , however the assumption injury , often was of repeated denied gaseous simp arsenic lbecause exhala it - _*

    could , not be , lained . Nevertheles , sthe deleterious effect of arsenic y green paperhangings exp is at present pretty generall , y acknowled transfe ged ; indeed of the , arsenic it does

    from wal not l require and the wall _dispersed any to hi the g over h-flown system the hypothesis . room The is arsenic quite to exp sufficient dust lain , the bodil for y this separated r from . The the

    investigations of the last few year , have clearly _shotyn the presence purpose of arsenic in the dust of rooms hung with arsenic-green paper , even when this dust had

    been collected at the greatest possible distance from the walls . Moreover

    50 A Physician's Memoranda.

    50 a physician's memoranda .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 50, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/50/