Did the Romans die of antimony poisoning? The case of a Pompeii water pipe (79 CE)

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Consultations and Public Health, Max Fourestier Hospital, 403 avenue de la République, 92000 Nanterre, France; Section of Medical Anthropology (UVSQ), UFR of Health Sciences, 2 avenue de la Source de la Bièvre, 78180 Montigny-Le-Bretonneux, France. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ² Section of Medical Anthropology (UVSQ), UFR of Health Sciences, 2 avenue de la Source de la Bièvre, 78180 Montigny-Le-Bretonneux, France.
• ³ Legal Medicine Section, Department of Public Health and Paediatric Sciences, University of Turin, Italy; Warwick Medical School, Microbiology and Infection Division, University of Warwick, United Kingdom; UMR 7268, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie bio - culturelle, Droit, Etique & Santé (Adés), Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, France.
• ⁴ Department of Medicine, "San Giovanni di Dio" Hospital, Gorizia, Italy.
• ⁵ Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Italy.
• ⁶ New Mexico Health Enhancement and Marathon Clinics Research Foundation, 361 Big Horn Ridge Dr. NE, Albuquerque, NM, USA; New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
• ⁷ Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark.