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Subject: Re: Lead poisoning and ancient Rome - (nf)
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fortune!rpw3    Dec 20 20:33:00 1983

Besides boiling their wine in lead pots, they used lead pipes for plumbing.

They used to forbid women of child-bearing age to drink the wine.
"Later this practice declined; so did the Romans." [tip-o-the-hat to Heinlein]