Lead poisoning: acute, 110; mortality, 57; entry of poison, 8 Lead silicate, 34 Lead smelting: and silver refining, 242; analysis of fumes in, 246; cupellation process, 246; Huntingdon-Heberlein process, 243; in blast furnace, 243; Parkes’s process, 244; Pattinson process, 245; reported plumbism, 248 Leadless glaze, 274 Leadless paints, 291 Lead salts: action on blood, 2; action of gastric juice on, 16, 17 Lemonade, sulphuric acid, 185 Letterpress printing. See Printing Litharge, manufacture of, 250 Lithopone, 291, 292 Litho-transfers, 277 Liver, absorption by, 24 Loss of fat in plumbism, 112 Lumbago, 115, 192 Lung: absorption by, 98; phagocytic absorption of lead, 23 Meal-rooms, requirements of, 234 Mechanism of lead absorption, 20 Medical examination, periodical, 115, 221-229 Medical Health Register, 228 Medical practitioners and notification, 44 Melting-point of lead, 2, 199 Menorrhagia, 36 Mental symptoms, 114, 121, 158 Metallic capsules, 297 Metallic taste, 127 Micro-chemical tests, 167 Molten lead, contact with, 297 Mortality figures, 59 Motor-cars. See Coach-painting Muscles paralyzed in experimental poisoning, 144 Muscular system, affections of, 114-161 Nephritis, 192 Nervous symptoms, 66, 67, 140; treatment, 193 Neuritis, peripheral, 66, 67 Nickel carbonyl poisoning via lung, 11 Normal lead, 33 Notification of plumbism, 44 Œdema of brain, 159 Olive oil in colic, 189 Ophthalmoscopic examination, 160 Oral sepsis, 38 Orange chrome, 299 Organic mixtures, lead in, 173 Organic compounds of lead, 5 Organs of generation, effect on, 36 Overalls and head coverings, 230 Oxides of lead, 3, 249 Painters and lead poisoning, 107. See also House-painting Paints: and colours, manufacture of, 285; leadless, 29, 291 Pancreatic digestion, action of, 17 Paralysis: in animals, 14; electrical reactions in, 181; forms of, 64, 66, 142; general, 151; in file-cutters, 152; insidious onset of, 114; of special sense organs, 150; prognosis of, 197; statistics of, 53 Parotitis, 127 Pathology of lead poisoning, 62 “Pentarcomb” exhaust, 217, 254 Peptonate of lead, 18 Peptone, solvent action of, 19 Perambulators, painting of, 290 Perihepatitis, 264 Peripheral neuritis, 266 Peritonitis, saturnine, 65 Peroneal paralysis, 149 Phagocytosis of lead particles, 20 Phthisis: in printing, 256; not a sequela, 60 Physiology of digestion, 16 Plumbing, 261 Plumbism, reported cases (1900-1909), 46, 47 Plumbo-solvency of water, 4 Porcelain enamelling, 278 Post-mortem signs, 91, 161 Potassium iodide, action of, 32, 191 Pottery. See Earthenware Predisposing causes, 36, 42 Presaturnine state, 184