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The Dangers of Arsenic

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Dec 11, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 47.

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The Dangers of Arsenic

A SINGLE pound of arsenic is sufficient to poison fatally nearly 3,000 persons; yet more than 2,000,000 pounds of this deadly article are annually imported into this country, some of which is used in killing potato-bugs and other vermin, but the great portion of which is employed in the manufacture of wall-paper, enameled paper collars, colored dress goods, window curtains, pigments, and a great variety of other things, nearly all of which endanger human life. The evil has become so great that there ought to be interference on the part of the civil authorities.