Shadows from the Walls of Death explained

Shadows from the Walls of Death
Author:Dr. Robert C. Kedzie
Country:United States of America
Language:English
Pub Date:1874
Media Type:Print
Pages:100

Shadows from the Walls of Death: Facts and Inferences Prefacing a Book of Specimens of Arsenical Wall Papers is an 1874 book by Dr. Robert C. Kedzie (1823–1902) of Michigan.[1]

The book warns of the dangers of then commonly used arsenic-pigmented wallpaper. The book contains 86 samples of said wallpaper. Due to the dangerous amount of arsenic in the work, only five of the original 100 copies have survived. Most copies were destroyed by the recipient libraries. The extant copies are only handled using special safety precautions.[2], the remaining copies were held at Harvard University Medical School, the U.S. National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland, and the university libraries of Michigan State University and the University of Michigan.[3] The copy in the National Library of Medicine has been digitized and is freely available.

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  1. Web site: Shadows from the walls of death. 2021-06-02. search.lib.umich.edu.
  2. Web site: How a Library Handles a Rare and Deadly Book of Wallpaper Samples . Zawacki . Alexander J. . . 2018-01-23 . 2018-06-16 .
  3. Book: Kedzie. R. C. "Shadows from the walls of death": facts and inferences prefacing a book of specimens of arsenical wall papers. Baker. Henry B. Michigan. State Board of Health. W.S. George & Co. 1874. English. 1194639611.