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The Toxic History of Color
- flobosg 4y agoI remember reading that one possible cause of Napoleon’s death was arsenic poisoning from the pigments present in the moldy wallpaper of his St. Helena’s home: https://books.google.com/books?id=7bklpWKpfp0C&pg=PA101&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=7bklpWKpfp0C&pg=PA101&redi...
- josephcsible 4y agoI was pleasantly surprised to see "toxic" being used for its actual meaning, instead of just "anything I don't like" as is so common these days.