Use of lead as both pigment and drying agent (and sweetener)
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
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
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
The clinical notes refer to "a case of mental retardation" at a time when "ability" was largely seen as innate.
Licking
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
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
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
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
Pica: When your pet eats things that aren't food
Object vs document?
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?)