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The Daily Dispatch: March 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
Poison in wall paper. --Dr. Charles T. Jackson gives in the Medical and Surgical Journal an interesting paper on this subject. A child was poisoned by sucking the color from a green concert ticket. A duplicate of the ticket was examined by Dr. Jackson, and the coloring matter was found to contain nearly a grain and a half of Scheele's green, which is a preparation of arsenic. The quantitoning by sleeping in rooms papered with such paper. Many cases have come to the knowledge of Dr. Jackson, in which he has detected the poison on the paper. In one recent case, a lady, latter cuttinborder paper, was severely poisoned, suffering all the symptoms of poisoning by arsenic. Dr. Jackson says that the high-colored confectionery is also colored with poisonous matters. Green arsentickets, and paper hangings, as equally handsome colors may be obtained with safe materials. Dr. Jackson gives the following simple test of green color in paper hangings: "Since there is anothe