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Don’t eat the green ones, or any other colour!

Buying sweets could be hazardous to your health. Eating blancmange likewise, as this cautionary tale from the Medical Times of 1850 shows:-

poisonous sweeties

 

Published January 26, 2015By martin_hedges
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Medical Times 1850, poisons in 19th century sweets

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