The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-05-23

VI any OL0 0AC6pt bu0 udHuldCOut6F,
introduced others in their place. Not |
that the manufacturer is always guilty |
of trying to kill his clients out of malice |
prepense. He more frequently errs |
from ignorance, or by reason of his in
experience of the effects likely to be |
caused by the new chemicals he en-
ploys in his eagerness to produce some
thing pretty and cheap. As rule, it
may be said that nearly all the articles
of dress in bright reds, aniline reds,
magentas and certain greens are more
or less poisonous, and the general re-
suit of the inquiry made into their COM
| position some years ago was that these
dyes very frequently contain arsenic,
which, unless it has been removed after
the purpose for which it has been in
troduced is served, is apt to precipitate
the most painful consequences. Fus-
cine, as it is called on the Continent,
solferino, rosaniline, and so forth
to use its more familiar names in this
country-has been found to yield on
analysis over two per cent. of arsenious
acid, in addition to Il per cent. of
arsenic acid. Coraline, another brill
liant red dye, has more than once
caused poisoning by being absorbed
through the heated skin when used in
underclothing; while the green arsen-
ite of copper, employed to cover tarl-
atans, is apt to get rubbed off and in
hailed, not only by the wearer, but by
others in the same room. The symp-
toms of such poisoning DR.. Morris has
described as red and painful swellings
of the parts affected, followed by blis-
ters, which in time verge into ulcers,
and accompanied by headache, languor,
nausea and feverishness, constantly in
creasing until the offending article is
removed. There are, indeed, few pieces
of underclothing which have not at
some time or other been accused of
thus playing the poisouer. The analine
, dye in a flannel waistcoat or in a
''ehest protector" has been affirmed to
be the reason of painful pimples break
ing out on the skin against which they
} lay. Socks have been guilty of raising
: Inflammation on the legs, and even one
! of those gaudy-hued hats which for a
time were supposed to be 'just the
J thing" for lawn tennis was condemned
{ as the origin of a poisoned swelling OF
: the forehead. Gloves have not escaped
: a well-founded suspicion of not being
' so innocent as they look, and case
5 was reported some years ago in which
! an eruption around the ankle was oc-
casioned by wearing shoes lined with
e yellow leather, into which some dele
. terious ingredient had entered.
g AT one time confectioner's shops were
e well-recognized magazines of domestic
c poisons, since, apart from the dubi-
f ously wholesome character of THEN
o least noxious contents, the green, vel
n low and ruby hues of the sweetmeatE
S were often indebted to copper and
g other poisons for their brilliancy
d Nowadays, however, the adulteratior
/ act has rendered these palaces of youth
q full delight comparatively harmless
If though they still help the genera
). practitioner to steady income. Ever
d the fuscine-colored wines of Franc,
1t are less in vogue. The competition o
v the Colonial, Greek, Hungarian ant
le Italian vintages has made the dealer
l. in these doctored products of Bordeau,
" and Burgundy-and possibly of quar-
d ters not so distant-more cautious thal
e of old, since the importers of pure
IS brands are prone to get an analysis o
r their rivals bottles, and, like the her
10 of Burns song, to ''prent it. Bu
:. even yet, in spite of all the caution
If which have been issued, there ar
d pickles for sale which contain copper
a and daintily preserved fruits, the colo
J. of which is derived, not from the labo
e ratory of nature, but from the retort
V of the chemist. Olive-green wall pa
l. pers often contain-or did contain, fo
:. they are eyed askance nowadays, un
l. less proof positive of their harmless
If ness is supplied to the purchaser-ar
n senic, which, being driven off by tn
q heat of the room, brings O.
G dysenteric symptoms, with intens
Ir weakness and languor. An eminen
n physician, who was at first skeptical a
r to the possible evil influences of such
4. paper, learned to his cost that it was
Y real danger. Another medical ma
" and his wife were nearly killed by ar
, senical paint, and third practitione
d attributed the death of his children t
D. the nursery wall paper, which wa
r found, when too late for the discover
y to be of any avail, to contain arseni
A. in large quantities. 1t is not improba
BILE that much of that weakness, weari
ce ness and depression which many me
rs experience on leaving home in tn
ar morning, and which is again felt o
lie returning in the evening, is due, nc
q to ''overwork" convenient, pre-
1t disposing cause of so much mythics
le illness-but as DR.. Lauder Brunto
N had suggested, to the drains and tn
1, householder's Wallpapers. These dc
is mestic poisons are, we believe, not no,