You are right, Werner. I too had that perception until I did some  digging. 
Unfortunately event though the historian is speculating, the  reader too often 
takes it as gospel. I suppose that is OK so long  as they are right to begin 
with.
 
Curiously and along the same line, in the US in the 1960s (if I recall  
correctly) the FDA was concerned about canned food with tin-lead soldered lids  and 
while they did not find a link that showed it a definite problem, on the  
bright side, it did cause researchers to turn their attention to the air  and 
leaded gasoline which was where the real problem was. Serendipity will  always 
have an important role to play in research. 
 
Unfortunately rumors and myths never really die because they spread easily  
and are too often more titillating than the truth. 
 
Best, 
Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: [log in to unmask]
To: Vladimir  Igoshev; [log in to unmask]
Sent: Wed May 09 18:53:14 2007
Subject: Re:  [TN] SV: [TN] SV: [TN] SV: [TN] Metallurgists, need assistance

Hi  Vladimir,
As it was explained to me when I made a similar statement, the  Roman lead 
water pipe issue is a 'Red Herring'—it was the leaded glass and  crystal 
together with the acidic wines that lead to the roman lead poisening,  not the water.



Werner








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