Medicine: Leaded Silk

Miss P. Belle Kessinger of Pennsylvania State College pulled a rat out of a warm, leaded-silk sack, noted that it had died of lead poisoning, and proceeded to Manhattan. There last week she told the American Home Economics Association that leaded silk garments seem to her potentially poisonous. Her report alarmed silk manufacturers who during the past decade have sold more than 100,000,000 yards of leaded silk without a single report of anyone's being poisoned by their goods. Miss Kessinger's report also embarrassed Professor Lawrence Turner Fairhall, Harvard chemist, who only two years...