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    LIVES FOE, LEAVES. 169

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    feel sickit is all over . I speak now of little children , and tliere can liardlbe , a more iteous siht than these—lying * about as they will ,

    powder grass y green I once to the witnessed p elbows , such and g their a scene poor ; thoug little h faces to be smeared sure their with em the

    -. that ployer there , who was seemed " an unc a kind ommon , good de - al natured of shamming person enoug / ' for h that , exp as lained soon

    as one was " done / ' and had to give up , all the rest " began to holler . " In factthe little ones were of no use after a day or so , for

    they began to " , grizzle" ( a word which , being interpreted , means to whimperto fret ;) then they would lose their pins and come to grief

    hj various , accidents , bitterly lamented though hardly seeming to come ht .

    unsoug The material thought be will so naturall deadl y what arise , must " If be the the effects condition of working of the leaf on y

    maker green who works for months , together almost exclusively on green ?" It is precisel , this question which we propose to consider .

    It is said that y some evils bear in themselves the elements of their own destructionand the adjustment of the different branches of the

    artificial flower business , which relieves one department at the cost of terrible affliction to the , other , has , by the results which have

    _siibject naturall . y ensue Of course d , roused there , have or at been least fatal called results public , and attention the A health medical to the of has been irretrievablinjured .

    many , very many , y others gentleman who who were seems consulted to have by the had unhappy more penetration sufferers , than and some from

    whose method of treatment , according to their account , they could alone find reliefhad at length a fatal case . The girl complained

    of the usual pain , in the side and intense thirst . She was seized with vomitingand the refuse of the stomach was of a greenish

    color she was . Finding again , suffering herself very from ill the , she effects went of to poison a doct . or , She who had told been _& er the

    ill several times before , and had always complained of pains in stomach and sickness . She continued in the greatest pain , till in

    four or _iive days death ended her sufferings . A post-mortem examination was madeand " the body was

    , found of a greenish yellow color , the eyes were also of the same huethe nails were very green , and the countenance of a

    particularly , anxious the liver character being . hig The hly impregnated lungs gave , evidence as also the of arsenite mesenteric of

    ulcers g copper lands . , There The stomach was also was inflammation much inflamed of the with mucous bunches membrane of gangrenous of the

    bronchial . tubesno doubt _cau . sed by the arsenite of copper . The cause of death was , , acute inflammation of the mucous membrane of

    the A stomach companion , produced of this by poor the inhalation girl She had died of the taken under arsenite to similar tlie of hosp copper circum ital . ' - *

    stances _where , she some was weeks treated previousl for fever y . . Thi was s poison-malady has been , insatiable

    _frequently mistaken for fever , owing to the intense

    Lives Foe, Leaves. 169

    LIVES FOE , LEAVES . 169

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1862, page 169, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051862/page/25/