Re: Lead poisoning from lead glasses

[borzykowski <borzykowski...>]

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players becoming insane ...this was caused by the player's wet finger absorbing
lead from the 18th century glass.

You can not absorb any lead from a finger... nor by drinking in lead crystal 
glasses.
But indeed with ceruse (white lead) painted ceramic cups.
(Sorry for this little out of topics)


Michal Borzykowski
e-mail: borzykowski (at) infomaniak(dot)ch
Geneva klezmer page: http://borzykowski.users.ch


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