Sources from Episode 124

  1. “Arsenic Pills and Lead Foundation: The History of Toxic Makeup,” National Geographic, 22 September 2016, https://tinyurl.com/y5ps3d7o.

  2. “Ballerinas On Fire (1861),” Tidings of Yore, 21 November 2014, https://tinyurl.com/y2h8wkce.

  3. “Beautiful Women Use Dr. Simms’ Arsenic Complexion Wafers,” Spokane Daily Chronicle, 12 August 1893, pg. 4, https://tinyurl.com/yxbv78tj.

  4. “Cleopatra’s Eye Makeup Warded Off Infections?,” National Geographic, 15 January 2010, https://tinyurl.com/y3zdykb7.

  5. “Cosmetics in Ancient Rome,” Roemer Cohorte, https://tinyurl.com/y47w2ss4.

  6. Derek Doyle, “Notoriety to respectability: a short history of arsenic prior to its present day use in haematology,” British Journal of Haematology Vol. 145, Issue 3 (6 April 2009), https://tinyurl.com/yxsw6vog.

  7. “Dr. James P. Campbell’s Safe Arsenic Complexion Wafers,” National Museum of American History, https://tinyurl.com/y4tt5msk.

  8. “Egyptian Eyeliner May Have Warded Off Disease,” Science Mag, 8 January 2010, https://tinyurl.com/y556b6qe.

  9. “Elizabethan Make-Up 101,” Elizabethan Costume, https://tinyurl.com/nzx8mal.

  10. “The Peculiar History of Foot Binding in China,” The Atlantic, September 16, 2013, https://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/09/the-peculiar-history-of-foot-binding-in-china/279718.