[Sca-cooks] Metal Poisoning from the fork - i.e. acqueduct

[Susan Lord Williams]

I know nothing about the construction of aqueducts but today water is drunk from that of Segovia which still functions. I think that is proof enough that lead poisoning it not a factor in Segovia aqueduct.
Again we are back to square one? What lead poisoned the Romans?

Aruvqan wrote:

>  . . . lead poisoning from the aqueducts is not probable, 
> aqueducts were wood, cement, stone and various forms of tile and mortar, 
> the lead piping from the bronze joints to the houses and fountains on 
> the other hand would be a consideration.
> 
> [structurally, the aqueducts were from the various rivers and springs 
> around cities at a higher elevations and were made up of building 
> materials, there was not enough lead in all of the empire to line all 
> the aqueducts with lead, some of them were 10 feet in diameter at the 
> source ends, and big enough that a smallish slave could crawl through 
> them at the city end, with settling chambers for sediment at various 
> points along the way. Fittings made of bronze were let in, so they could 
> not be messed with to allow more water than was paid for to flow. Lead 
> was only in the final distribution end of things and was fairly 
> expensive. It was a product of silver mining mainly, and a fair amount 
> actually came from the outskirts of the empire - Britain was a fairly 
> major source of lead. It was expensive enough that the few all lead 
> coffins discovered in the past few decades were seriously worthy of 
> comment by archeologists.]

So what poisoned Romans - their goblets, 
>