Lead poisoning probably didn’t doom the Franklin Expedition
Comparisons of the remains of members of the Franklin Expedition with their Royal Navy contemporaries elsewhere show high levels of lead were common amongst sailors of the day.
Most of those familiar with the Arctic will need no introduction to the fate of the Franklin Expedition. But what remains a mystery is the series of events that eventually lead to the deaths of all 129 souls who were aboard the Erebus and the Terror when the expedition’s two doomed vessels froze into the ice of the Northwest Passages in September 1846.
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