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The Devouring Element: Lead’s Impact on Health examines changing notions of the utility and danger of lead and human health from classical times until the present.
Featuring unique specimens, both biological (wet specimens, bones),
artificial (plaster casts, medical instruments), as well as images,
rare books and manuscripts from the Library of The College of
Physicians of Philadelphia, The Devouring Element: Lead’s Impact on
Health shows that, for most of human history, lead’s involvement in
human biological development was viewed as natural, despite known
dangers. Only with the development of genetics, chemistry, and
molecular biology has lead’s poisonous effects on health been
understood.
The Devouring Element: Lead’s Impact on Health is developed in collaboration with PhillyHealthInfo.org and the Philadelphia Department of Public Health.
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Images of and from the collection are available for a fee by contacting Rights & Reproduction. Please email: museum@collphyphil.org or call 215-563-3737 x244.
The Museum’s collections are available to qualified researchers by appointment only. Please email: museumref@collphyphil.org or call 215-563-3737 x273.
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