£^o A vsenical Poisoning by Wcill-Pcipcvs [Septembei, 
easily detached. In Saxe-Cobourg and Gotha ducal edidts 
have been in force since 1839 prohibiting the use of arse- 
nical pigments for all domestic purposes, and a schedule 
list of dangerous articles given which must not be rntro- 
duced into articles of food or drink. 1 he Hessian Crimina 
Code of 1855 is more stringent, and specifies a number ol 
colours which, though not coming within the category ot 
diredt poisons, are of a poisonous nature and injurious to 
health ; it not only regulates their use but prohibits then- 
sale by chemists and others, thus far more nearly correspond- 
ing to the “ Sale of Poisons A Cl ” of this country. 
In Bavaria a law of 1863 enadts that aisenic is not to 
enter into colours and paints for house decorations, window 
blinds, wire gauze for meat safes, artificial flowers, &c. In 
Sweden the question of arsenical colours has been the cause 
of much discussion at home, and of negotiations with the 
Governments of other countries. The ordinance of 1876, 
which regulated the manufacture, storage, and sale of poi- 
sons of all kinds, unconditionally prohibited the use of arse- 
nic in wall-papers, cloths, blinds, artificial flowers, ana 
wares of all kinds, as well as in lamp-shades, sealing-wax, 
wafers, and candles. It was thought carpets were not in- 
cluded, but the Courts ruled these as an accidental omission 
and they were accordingly included, carpet sewing having 
in some cases produced arsenical poisoning. By the Act 
every purchaser of an article possibly arsenical can have it 
analysed and certified by the Government chemist. It also 
fixes as the limit of security in wall-papers, namely, that the 
metallic arsenic deposited in a glass tube of 15- to 2 milli- 
metres internal diameter from 44° s 4 uaie centimeties ol 
these articles, or from 220 square centimetres of textile 
fabrics and 21 grains of other articles, by the Babo or 
Fresenius process, shall not produce a black, biown, 01 even 
a partially opaque arsenical mirror. 
Denmark and Holland stand next in point of stringency 
of their regulations on the use of arsenic and other poisons 
in the arts. In Denmark a law has lately come into force 
based upon that of Germany, and which prohibits the use of 
arsenic in wall-papers, carpets, window blinds, _ artificial 
flowers, and fabrics of all kinds, and in all descriptions of 
paints, distemper, or colouring for walls, or decoiative pur- 
poses. 2. The use of lead in toilet articles, and in enamel- 
lin°- or tinning cooking utensils, or of oxide ol lead 01 zinc 
in India-rubber for infants’ feeding-bottles, toys, &c. For 
the use of arsenic, antimony, lead, chromium, cadmium, 
copper, cobalt, mercury, lead, zinc, and of gamboge in toys, 
