Paper coated with red lead

My recollection is that the incident about poisoning of a
conservator that made it to a medical journal involved the
conservator's licking his/her brushes while applying red lead to an
artifact.

B. Appelbaum

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                  Conservation DistList Instance 11:94
                   Distributed: Tuesday, May 19, 1998
                       Message Id: cdl-11-94-007
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