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...women. It was a colorless, tasteless liquid, kept on women's dressing tables. After some 600 affectionate husbands of gaddy wives had died with terrible stomach gripes, authorities discovered that the Manna of St. Nicholas di Bari was a preparation of arsenic sold to impatient wives by the Tiffana. She was executed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Manna | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

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