A close inspection of the pages of the folder accompanying the toy car positions the object in relation to the other entries under S but also unfolds a series of thoughts in regards to labeling and the taxonomy of objects in science, art and museology. Placed under the Perspex cover the folder itself as an object can be seen as a counterpart to the car, its textual other, and as such its physical attributes are also put under scrutiny.

There are five entries under S, all relating to chemical poisoning in young children.

S.1. refers to a serious poisoning incident of a very young baby after ingestion of ferrous iron tablets
S.2. refers to a seventeen-month old baby that showed signs of ‘pink’ disease after taking mercury tablets
S.3. refers to another case of lead poisoning, a five-month old baby this time from nipple shields
S.4. refers to lead poisoning by the car
S.5. refers to a severe poisoning of an eight year old girl presumptively due to phosphorus.

The chemical elements involved are ferrous iron, mercury, lead and phosphorus. In cases S.2., S.3. and S.4. the entries refer to the incriminating objects: the mercury tablets, the nipple shields and the toy car. However, entries S.1. and S.5. describe ‘a portion of the oesophagus’, ‘the stomach’, ‘the tongue’, or a ‘section of the liver’ and sections of the myocardium’, disconcertingly revealing that the corresponding objects in the collection are the remaining organs of the children.

The information on the front of the pages exposes an underlying theme of the vulnerability of very young children to chemical elements found in everyday objects, even when these objects are often part of practices of care. The reverse side of the pages is mute, punctuated by a constellation of miniscule raised indentations, the convex trace of the typist’s full stops.