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Given that humans have been using lead in various product for over 8,000 years (with the first known mining of it in Anatolia around 6500 BCE), you might be surprised to learn that we have known that lead is dangerous and shouldn’t be trifled with since at least 150 BC, when its effects on the human body were noted by famed Greek physician Nicander of Colophon. Nicander even went so far as to describe the metal as “deadly”, writing extensively on the crippling effects it has on the human body in his work, Alexipharmaca.
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http://chemistry.about.com/od/howthingsworkfaqs/f/leadpoisoning.htm
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/lead-poisoning/basics/symptoms/con-20035487
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3442387
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/csem/csem.asp?csem=7&po=10
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/wine/leadpoisoning.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3430923/
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/aconite/nicander.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1671748
http://kidshealth.org/parent/firstaid_safe/home/lead_poisoning.html
http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/flead.asp
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