Science, Maths & Technology
Hat makers, Greek gods and the great poisoners
...changes such as irritability, depression and shyness. In extreme cases delirium was experienced – as illustrated so well by the character of the mad hatter in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. However, it wasn’t just hatters who suffered from metal poisoning. In the Bronze Age, arsenic was often added to copper to strengthen it when tin was not...