[Sca-cooks] Metal Poisoning

[Johnna Holloway]

Perhaps these articles and references will help:

"The first artificial sweetener...."
http://io9.com/5877587/the-first-artificial-sweetener-poisoned-lots-of-romans

"Lead poisoning and Rome."
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/wine/leadpoisoning.html

And an article from April 2014 with news of a brand new study

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2612011/Lead-poisoning-DIDNT-end-Roman-Empire-Tap-water-contained-100-times-metal-spring-water-levels-low.html

Johnnae
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