1. Did you know that Pennsylvanian began dying from lead poisoning, due to the large number of leaded foreign bodies which had been embedded in the wood from shooting?
2.A four-year analysis of a lock of Ludwig van Beethoven's hair suggests lead poisoning could be the cause of certain ailments suffered by the famous composer.
Researchers at Chicago's Health Research Institute have found a concentration of lead 100 times the level normally found in people today in the hair, which was cut after Beethoven died in 1827 at age 56.
Regarding the source of lead ,one possibility is the mineral water he swam in and drank while staying at spas
3.Aunt Lizzie, too, suffered.How? Her husband, Michael, was partially paralysed by lead poisoning shortly after they married, leaving him mostly unable to work, something Fred Allen,a popular american comedian, remembered causing contention among Lizzie's sisters.
4.When Guy Rose died at the age of fifty-eight, apparently from lead poisoning, his accomplishments seemed few. The number of extant paintings, as well as the scope and range of his subjects were, it seemed, limited. However, research and discovery in the past few years has helped to uncover paintings and a talent that has been virtually neglected for the past half century.
5.Countless explorers died from lead poisoning because their rations were sealed in lead cans. Years later this triggered an outcry in England after the lead poisoning was revealed to the public. The practice stopped.
6.One woman in our women's medical ward gave every sign and symptom of lead poisoning as a cause for her sickness. Positive proof of its source was lacking until a lock of her hair was tested in a test tube with the proper chemical re-agent, which showed the presence of lead. Her hair dye had lead in it, which had poisoned her!
7.the contamination was uncovered when a pediatrician, Manuel Velasco, noticed that many of his young patients who lived near the plant were anemic and began testing them for lead. At the same time a local toxicologist, Gonzalo Garcia Vargas, completed a study that showed that the children had alarmingly high lead levels.
As the results came in, horror seized the community. Little by little the parents learned that lead could be especially damaging to their children. Prolonged exposure could have permanently weakened their muscles and even dimmed their intelligence. But the families cannot be sure because no tests for long-term effects have yet been done.
8.Dalila Zamarron, who is 25, recalled her odyssey from one specialist to another trying to find an explanation for her daughter Norma Angelica's chronic ailments. The doctors' diagnoses ranged from typhoid fever to sinusitis, but their cures never worked. Now Mrs. Zamarron wonders how much of the problem was lead. What is more, the little girl is repeating kindergarten again this year, after failing for the second time to pass into first grade. "She's slow," Mrs. Zamarron said, her voice hoarse with sadness. "She's definitely slow." The community is determined to make Met-Mex Penoles pay for the damage. Aided by local lawyers, about 125 families have joined in civil suits against the company seeking compensation for any disabilities the children are found to have.
9.alchemist (his most promising son,
Mordechai, died at 26 of lead poisoning, after an experiment)
10. Cocteau's leading man (and lover) in La Belle et la bête nearly died from lead poisoning absorbed from his beastly, daily makeup session.)
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