Poisons in the Pages? New Research Shows Victorian-Era Books Could Poison Readers

The Debrief ^ | August 20, 2024 | Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

[Red Badger]

PinGGG!....................

[lee martell]

“Oh,help yourself. DO read all the books here....IF you Dare!!”.... followed by maniacal Vincent Price type angry laughter.

[gundog]

[mass55th]

Victorian wallpaper contained arsenic:

Arsenic and Old Tastes Made Victorian Wallpaper Deadly

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Calm down.

Unless you are licking the pages you will be fine.

[Red Badger]

Well, there goes all the fun!..............

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

:Snicker:

There is some chick online that shows you how old paints were made. Yeah, the stuff used was not good for you over the long term but she dresses like she is going into a level four lab on Plum Island.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

“These old books with toxic dyes may be in universities, public libraries and private collections”

The Victorian books themselves are fine. It's their contents that are poisonous.

[SunkenCiv]

Maybe they were written using a poison pen. Okay, I phoned that one in. Thanks Red Badger.

[AdmSmith]

If the book, painting or wall paper is over 100 years old and still brightly colored, don not lick it.

[SunkenCiv]

Within fifty years we may be living in a Fahrenheit 451 world, and all books will be poisonous.

[Pelham]

Exactly

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

The Name of the Rose comes to mind.

[Gaffer]

They certainly can’t be touting this as a “new discovery” can they? I remember hearing, reading, seeing something about like this years ago.

[AdmSmith]

That is true.

[married21]

One error: Napoleon died on the island of Saint Helena, not Elba.

[ansel12]

I own dozens of such history, medical, school, and military books from that era, even a couple of sets of encyclopedias.

[Ragnar Danneskjöld]

First step in declaring old books off-limits. This is how it starts. Similar argument to physical cash being dangerous because it passes germs.

[Openurmind]

“the researchers plan to present a new technique,”

Because wearing gloves is not good enough? I think you may have dug up another funding scam Badger. I see a business opportunity. Become a third party service to search the world for any small justification to apply for funding and charge a finder’s fee. Could probably find hidden nuggets they haven’t thought of yet. Just subcontract to these organizations and fast track these funding scams for them.