WALL PAPERS AND NERVES
1 Dr. Ande'tsehou, of Denmark; speaking recently on-"Drugs and their Action o!j; the Psycho-Therapeutic Society's room® in Red Lyon Square, Holborn, said thai) mercury'was-used ili England moro than ill any other, country in cases of syphilis, and claimed nio're victims than the disease. The use of arsenic in wall-paper for rooms was also a danger in a very peculiar way. The arsenic became absorbed, in the human system,. It created irritability; a person under its influence could not remain quiet, became anxious, aiid phowed a certain, fear of death. Medical treatment for nervousness was the usual consequence,' and all tho tima tho patient was suffering from arsenio' contained in the paper oji (he wall.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 199, 17 May 1919, Page 7
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118WALL PAPERS AND NERVES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 199, 17 May 1919, Page 7
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