Death in the beer-glass: the Manchester arsenic-in-beer epidemic of 1900-1 and the long-term poisoning of beer
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For an unknown number of years running up to the end of nineteenth century, beer-drinkers in Manchester and the north-west of England suffered an insidious assault to their health a form of paralysis termed peripheral neuritis. The condition was the result of consuming dangerous quantities of arsenic contained unsuspected and undetected in their beer. The source of the poison was contaminated barley malt used unwittingly by brewers, with the extent of the contamination sufficient to provide Manchester hospitals with a steady throughput of severely debilitated beer drinkers. However, the ongoing failure of brewers to realise that they were slowly poisoning many of their customers was facilitated by the systematic misdiagnosis by local medical practitioners of these same beer-drinkers. Their clinical eye prejudiced by assumptions about the habits and honesty of poor working-class drinkers, and by a largely unquestioned belief in the special symptomatology of local alcoholism, these medical praction-
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