Season 1 · Episode 16

The Apothecary Diaries · S1E16

Aired on January 28, 2024

Science entries in this episode

Lead White Makeup

Ceruse is lead carbonate: worn daily, it caused slow lead poisoning. The symptoms, why it killed nursing infants, and the palace curse in The Apothecary Diaries.

Science fact-check

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Can You Become Immune to Poison Through Exposure?

Partly true. You can build tolerance to some poisons, but never to all of them: Maomao's total immunity is fiction.