Scheele green

Deadly

secrets

green

of color

is killing children

England, 1862. The Turner family has lost three children for unknown reasons and now the youngest daughter has fallen ill. The best doctor in London was called in to help. What will he say?

A mysterious illness

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let's take a look around the girls' room

Let's go into the town

In order to solve the mystery, we need to understand how people live in this city. Let's take a closer look. Hmm... figurines, ruffles, fancy dresses, beautiful wallpaper. You can see that everyone loves decor.

And moreover, the majority of residents prevails the same color in interior and clothing, which is now at the peak of fashion.

EVERYONE IS OBSESSED WITH THE COLOR GREEN

It turns out that green paint contains ....

So, a pattern emerged in our investigation: all of the deceased have green wallpaper.

Also, our chemist found that rooms with such wallpaper smelled like mice. After laboratory tests, he came to a shocking conclusion.

What does the color green

have to do with it?

It was found that the dress alone contained so much arsenic that it was capable of killing 10 people.

Arsenic crumbled off the dresses as they danced and it was a real dance with death.

ARSENIC

Let's ask

The chemist Carl Scheele discovered emerald paint in 1775 while experimenting with arsenic. The paint quickly became popular and was named “Scheele's Green”.

The scientist was aware that the paint was poisonous, but he produces it anyway. At the age of 43, he dies of poisoning.

Let's ask the inventor

the inventor

Doctors are sounding the alarm

Doctors are the first to join the fight against green paint: they are calling for you to stop buying green stuff.

It's mind boggling, but arsenic was even found in postage stamps, children's toys, jewelry, and food.

Doctors are soundi ng the alarm

Doctors are the first to join the fight against green paint: they are calling for you to stop buying green stuff.

It's mind boggling, but arsenic was even found in postage stamps, children's toys, jewelry, and food.

green is the most sophisticated maniac

England’s benefactor Queen Victoria had her say. After an important guest felt ill while in a bedroom with green wallpaper, Victoria ordered it removed from all of Buckingham Palace.

Soon a law is passed and the toxic green paint is officially phased out of production and banned for use.

Queen Victoria comes

to the rescue

In our case, the insidious color green received a life sentence. Now samples of more than a hundred nineteenth-century wallpapers are preserved in the book “Shadows of the Walls of Death”.

For even after hundreds of years, it still carries a threat...

The criminal has an enhanced defense: each page of the book is sharpened in plastic, and you can polish it with special gloves.