Cosmetics tested at Department of Agriculture. Washington D.C., July 10. In hair dyes and hair tonics there is sometimes found lead acetate, this is absorbed slowly into the system where it accumulates and may result in chronic poisoning. D.H. McCarter, of the Department of Agriculture is shown determining the amount of alcohol in a hair tonic by the method of distillation...

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Cosmetics tested at Department of Agriculture. Washington D.C., July 10. In hair dyes and hair tonics there is sometimes found lead acetate, this is absorbed slowly into the system where it accumulates and may result in chronic poisoning. D.H. McCarter, of the Department of Agriculture is shown determining the amount of alcohol in a hair tonic by the method of distillation...

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1900 - 1940
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Harris & Ewing, photographer
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States38.90719, -77.03687
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Library of Congress
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