History

Use of lead as both pigment and drying agent (and sweetener)

Your name: 
Edward Artley
Entry: 

This exhibition appealed to me because it deals with a paint mystery, did the child suffer the lead poisoning as a direct result of consuming the paint?

Boy apparently dies due to licking walls painted with paint containing lead

Entry: 

My mother used to run a dance group. The group consisted mainly of girls however there was one boy (approx. age 8) . He had a habit of licking the walls in his house.

Celebrity Lead Poisoning Deaths - Beethoven

Your name: 
Brian Lobel
Entry: 

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), according to a study in 2006 by the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, U.S.A.

Perceptions of mental retardation

Entry: 

The clinical notes refer to "a case of mental retardation" at a time when "ability" was largely seen as innate.

Licking

Your name: 
Lord Licky
Entry: 

During the course of my undergraduate degree in General Archaeology, myself and a few of my friends from my class had a three year-long competition to see what the weirdest archaeological object an

Makeup and lead poisoning in the 18th century

Your name: 
Emma Chambers
Entry: 

There was a high incidence of lead-poisoning in the 18th century because of the fashion for red and white lead makeup and powder see -

The 18th Century

Homes and Gardens September 1963

Entry: 

A copy of Homes and Gardens magazine dated September 1963.
Features advertisement for Austin A40 and feature on "car of the month", a Volvo 122B:

The Turn of the Screw

Entry: 

We could read the crude and disproportionate screw in the base, in the context of it’s place as a teaching tool in the Pathology Collection, as a response to the fact that the car committed it’s ow

Pica in cats

Entry: 

Pica: When your pet eats things that aren't food

Object vs document?

Your name: 
Stephen Johnston
Entry: 

Are we responding to the car or to the pathological documentation that accompanies it? Is the object the car or car+file? (But maybe this is simply a typical curator's question?)

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