Shadows From The Wall of Death

 

                                                      Shadows From The Walls Of Death

                                          Book Containing Wall Papers Laced With Arsenic 

Shadows from the Walls of Death: Facts and Inferences Prefacing a Book of Specimens of Arsenical Wall Papers is an 1874 book by Dr. Robert C. Kedzie (1823–1902) of Michigan.

The book warns of the dangers of then commonly used arsenic-pigmented wallpaper. The book contains 86 samples of said wall[paper. 

Due to the dangerous amount of arsenic in the work, only five of the original 100 copies have survived. Most copies were destroyed by the recipient libraries. 

The extant copies are only handled using special safety precautions. As of 2021, the remaining copies were held at Harvard University Medical School, the U.S . National Libray Of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland  and the university libraries of Michigan State University and the University of Michigan.The copy in the National Library of Medicine has been digitized and is freely available

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