Lincoln embalming

[Eva Elisabeth]

(05-19-2013 06:57 AM)BettyO Wrote:  That could and probably did happen, Bill. But I don't think that the Victorians were familiar with lead contamination back then.

Lead poisoning is something that was discovered fairly recently in the 20th Century. It was also determined via recent studies which indicate that lead poisoning from canned food stuffs was believed to have led to the disorientation and loss of many of the crew of Sir John Franklin's Expedition in the Arctic in 1845-1848.

Lead Poisoning can lead to strange things....

In 1983 a Canadien scientist, J. Wilford, even raised a discussion wether lead poisioning due to the use of lead pots had caused the decline of the Roman Empire...