Editing Verdigris (section)

=== Toxicity ===
{{Main|Copper toxicity}}
Verdigris, which was once used as a medicine<ref name=co/><ref name=paris/> and pharmaceutical preparation 
<ref name="Benhamou-1984" />{{Rp|page=176}}<ref name="De la Roja-2007"/>{{Rp|page=414}}{{Clarify span|text=is mildly poisonous.|reason='How' is it poisonous? Inhalation? Contact? Ingestion? Please clarify and expand.|date=February 2024}}<ref name="Merriam-Webster Dictionary" /><ref name="Karmakar-2015" /><ref name="The Lancet-1843" />{{better source needed|reason=Of the four current citations one is a dictionary definition, one is of a non-publicly accessible journal article published in 1843, and two are two just bare references to publications inaccessible online.|date=February 2024}} Symptoms of toxicity include nausea, anemia and death, although widespread acquired immunity has been documented, as occurred with female workers in [[Montpellier]].<ref>[https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/oa_edited_volume/chapter/3623045/pdf Women and the Verdigris Industry in Montpellier], European Women and Preindustrial Craft. Project MUSE, Indiana University Press, 1995</ref> Nontoxic substitutes have been developed for some applications, such as art pigments.