Inter-Mountain Republican | 1907-01-27 | Page 17 | Copper Poison is Found in Oysters

COPPER POISON IS FOUND IN OYSTERS Or Organic analysis made of o oysters by City Chemist Herman Harms which were wre shipped here from eastern New Nett e Jersey Jerse show the tho presence of pO quantities u of copper The rh discovery cr was wap occasioned 1 by the sudden sudden sud sull- den sickness of fv five members of a family who vho had been eating oyster o soup Dr M M. M I R. R Stewart was summoned sum sum- mOtH to nth attend theta them m. m The Tho S symptoms seem to ter be hI that of ptomaine poisoning but afterward It was believed e 1 that It i I t I was poisoning from some metallic salt used as 38 a 3 preservative Dr Stewart Stew Stew- art ail took an nn o oyster and some of the soup to Chemist Harms to be analyzed u Cop Copper lieI was suspected an and 1 upon I testing for that metal a n large oyster i yielded a n deep cobalt blue coloring In Ina ina I Ia a test tube Another sample ample of at oysters ers secured on the market gave simi similar lar lur results I II I It was learned from the shippers that the o oysters st rs came canto from east cast New I Jersey Jen Jerse ej at the mouth of at the Rahway river The Perth Chemical works has been dumping Its waste w solutions into the river rl and it I is l be believed cd that the I II oysters that come from Crom tho those e parts partH i I take lake up th the cop copper pel wa waste tl This H li I the solution offered b by Chemist I Harms and explains the sudden sickness sickness sick sick- n ness s. s In several families from eating 0 oysters