Arsenic was everywhere in the Victorian period, from food coloring to baby carriages. But the vivid floral wallpapers were at the center of a consumer controversy about what made something safe ...

Fowler’s solution, a health tonic that contained arsenic (Courtesy of the private collection of Madame Talbot) The literature of the era hints ... were put into Victorian foods as bulking ...

The Victorian ... following era (Edwardian) was full of many positive medical advancements, including the discovery that ...

LEILA FADEL, HOST: The Poison Book Project is working to identify old books that contain toxic pigments like arsenic, which made Victorian-era books in the 1800s more eye-catching. Melissa Tedone ...

Yet this versatility is what made arsenic so ubiquitous in a variety of Victorian-era products, from home decor and wallpaper to clothing and books. When combined with copper oxide and lime, it ...

Not just a tool for murder, arsenic was everywhere in the Victorian era. An abundant by-product ... toys and textiles – even in medicines and food in the mid-to-late 1800s. The era’s penchant for ...

But others were widely acknowledged to be very bad for you (like eating arsenic ... Women made cold cream with white wax and spermaceti. Whales had it really bad during the Victorian era, what ...