Lead poisoning and lead absorption : $b The symptoms, pathology and prevention, with special reference to their industrial origin, and an account of the principal processes involving riskLegge, Thomas Morison, Sir
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Lead poisoning and lead absorption : $b The symptoms, pathology and prevention, with special reference to their industrial origin, and an account of the principal processes involving risk
Legge, Thomas Morison, Sir
Lead poisoning
Enamelling (vitreous), 278; aerographing in, 280; use of leadless
colours in, 278
Encephalitis, case of chronic, 71
Encephalopathy, 54, 68, 71, 157
Estimation of lead: in digestion, difficulties of, 18; in urine, 169,
170, 175
Excretion: of arsenic, 24; of lead salts, 32, 127, 128
Excretory system, 72
Exhaust ventilation. See Ventilation
Experimental lead poisoning: pathology of, 81; post-mortem findings,
91; symptoms, 69, 89, 103
Experimental arsenic poisoning, 24
Experimental results, summary, 104
Eye changes, 76, 150, 158
Facial nerve, paralysis of, 195
Fæces: examination for lead in, 182; lead in, 32, 64
Family susceptibility, 30
Fans. See Ventilation
Faradism for paralysis, 195
File-cutting, 256; atrophy of muscles in, 52, 257; reported cases in,
258
File-hardening, 258; lead fume from, 200, 201; use of fused metallic
salts for, 258
Forms of paralysis, 54, 142
Fritted lead: action of water on, 89; poisoning, 34, 97; solubility
test, 14
Fume (lead) in atmosphere breathed, 198, 207
Gastric absorption, 19, 21, 22
Gastric digestion, artificial, 17
Gastric juice, action on lead salts, 15, 16
Gastritis in plumbism, 65
Gastro-intestinal absorption, 12, 13, 64
Generalized paralysis, 151
Glass-cutting, 283
Glaze, 272; leadless, 274; low solubility, 274
Gout, 38
Hæmatoporphyrin, 180, 182
Hæmoglobin, 113, 132
Hæmorrhages in plumbism, 76
Hæmostatic action of lead salts, 2
Hair lotions, poisoning from, 13
Harness furniture, tinning of, 259
Headache, 120
Health Register, 228
Heart, 139, 193
Heart symptoms, 193
Heat, exhaust by, 208
Histological examination of lead tissues, 163, 176
Histology: of experimental poisoning, 92; of nervous system, 67
House-painting, 291; regulations for, 293; reported plumbism in, 291
Hunter, John, “dry bellyache” from rum, 1
Hyperæsthesia, 161
Immunity, 27, 29, 113
Incipient symptoms, 112, 222
India-rubber, manufacture of, 301
Inhalation experiments (table), 101
Inoculation experiments, 83, 88, 99
Instruction of worker, 240
Interstitial nephritis, 130
Intestinal absorption, 22, 94
Intestinal staining, 21, 94, 125
Iodine in plumbism, 192
Ionization in paralysis, 195
Iron drums, tinning of, 260
Italians and lead poisoning, 30
Kidney: changes, 73, 74, 129; excretion of lead by, 128; interstitial
hæmorrhages, 130
Lactic acid, solvent action of, 15
Large intestine and lead absorption, 21
Lavatories, 235, 238
Lead: compounds, 7; fume and dust in atmosphere, 198-207; in urine,
129, 167; melting-point, 2, 199
Lead bed in file-cutting, 257
Lead burning, 262; in electric accumulators, 283
Lead chloride in tinning, 200
Lead dust: minimal toxic dose, 31, 207; rate of settling, 7; size of
particles, 12
Lead fume in tinning, 202
Lead oxide, danger from skimming, 200
Lead piping, 251
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