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patrickg-zill on May 11, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Would you have survived in the middle ages?

I would like to point out that they used lead for drinking vessels sometimes...

parenthesis on May 11, 2009 [–]

Lead has been used in drinking water pipes much more recently than the middle ages: http://eh.net/bookreviews/library/1233 .

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