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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXI, Issue 5455, 26 August 1901, Page 1

Poisonous St;e2£isg3. Dr Andrew Wilson, in Health Notes, in the Scotsman Bays ;■— Last week in a medical contemporary Drs Tunnioliffe and Roses he Jm (to wbost researches on arsenio *nd selenium in beet I made reference some time ago) direct attention to the presence of the former poison in black woellen stockings, the result being the development of skin trouble of a very definite kind. It seems that aniline colours, so largely used in dyeing fabrics, at first contained arsenic; and in Germany a law was passed forbidding the use of any die in which arsenic could be detected. I can remember a bill to prohibit; the use of arsenio in paperhaeglnga being introduced into Parliament, but it ehated the fate of a good ' many other useful measures, and WM strangled In the toils of Parliamentary procedure* Two oases of skin afieotioa 1 were traced to the übq ot etockings con* talning arsenio, and it became of interest, 1 therefore, to determine whether this substance was commonly represented in those articles, : I shall allow the authors to tail their story ia their own words—''We fimb examined three samples of bWk woollen stocking? purchased as vaticfta prices at) riffurent parts of London, nil emanating from the same wholesale firm and from the one which supplied the original stock* Ings worn by the patient in case 1. They all contain arsenic, but apparently In smaller amounts than the stockings pro' duotive of the dermatitis or skin trouble We next obtained one sample trow each of four other makers, and we found tint arsenic .was present in each o»ee to a larger or a smaller degree. Three ec.mplea of 'tan' mixed wool and silk socks wert contaminated as well. ** We examined also a pair of ordinary ! woollen gloVcß. and found them to be j arsenicated, This had a special interest !in view of the case quoted by Sell, iio which a severe dermatitis of the hands was produced by the wearing of a pair of marine blue gloves. A sample of black loose wool was found to be free from arsenic. Upon inquiring into the tource of the arsenio ■we found that arsenic in various forms is used in the process of ryeing. In the standard woik on dyeing Iby Knecht and Raweon it is stated that 1 a solution of white arsenic iv acetic acid I to which some glyceiine has been added i is used and called * purple fixing colour.' , " The authors also say that ' sodium arseniate is extensively need as a fixing agent for mordants. In yarn dyeing U« affects the hands of the workmen owing fo its poisonous properties, As it Is ao dangerous . . . its use is objectionable.' Another possible source, although more unlikely, would be the use of highly arsenicatfd sulphuric acid In the preparation }ation of the chromic acid mordant bath." |It is added that the proportion of the j arsenic which can affect the body in such articles is excessive, and that Each soluble as seme should not ba permitted to be used. Black nik *ocks &uA yellow stock* ings made in Germany were fcund to be free from &r etrc. This fac; wculd seem |to llustrate the ta'isfactory woik!ng of theGenran U-w.

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