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To: verga

***Who the heck ever heard of embalming with arsenic? ***

http://www.utne.com/environment/arsenic-contamination-ze0z1306zpit.aspx
http://waterindustry.org/arsenic-3.htm
https://mysendoff.com/2011/06/arsenic-embalming-2/


26 posted on 04/05/2015 3:50:01 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Who the heck ever heard of embalming with arsenic?...Wouldn’t that kill ya?


28 posted on 04/05/2015 3:54:52 PM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar; boatbums
It appears I was mistaken. It was common for about a 50 year period her in the US. She did pass away in France during that 50 year period.. I will have to check and see if they used arsenic for embalming there.

I CCed bb because she is under the mistaken impression that I never admit to an error.

44 posted on 04/05/2015 4:37:55 PM PDT by verga (I might as well be playing chess with pigeons,.)
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