ЛАЧИ: 10 повседневных продуктов из прошлого, которые сегодня мгновенно убили бы вас.

10 Everyday Historical Foods That Would Instantly Kill You Today Number ten: Calomel Teething Powder. In nineteen eighteen, parents across Britain and North America were rubbing a fine white powder directly onto their infants' swollen gums, on the recommendation of physicians and pharmacists who had been endorsing the product for decades. The powder was called calomel, it was made of mercury chloride, and it was sold in pharmacies as a gentle, medically approved remedy for the ordinary misery of teething. Nobody questioned it. It came in a small tin, it was inexpensive, and the doctor had suggested it, so parents trusted it completely, the way parents have always trusted the thing the doctor suggested.