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Paper coated with red lead

From: Margie Searl <msearl>
Date: Thursday, May 14, 1998
There was an excellent article in the New Yorker magazine a number
of years ago, one in the Annals of Medicine series, that described
the near-fatal effects of red lead poisoning on a conservator who
was working with a red powdered pigment that had been cut with red
lead.  I wonder if anyone remembers more about it.

Margie Searl, curator of American art
Memorial Art Gallery

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Received on Thursday, 14 May, 1998

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