Preventive measures: age of employment, 239; baths, 238; cloakroom, 231; exhaust ventilation, 207; floors, 240; food, 86; head coverings, 231; instruction of worker, 240; meal-room, 234; overalls, 230; periodical examination, 221; separation of processes, 239; washing accommodation, 235 Printing: compositors’ work, 255; linotype machine, 200, 211, 217, 253; reported cases from, 252; stereo-casting, 254; type-casting, 252 Prodromal symptoms: of colic, 118; of paralysis, 141 Prognosis in lead poisoning, 197 Progressive spinal muscular atrophy, 68 Pulse-rate, alteration of, 76, 115, 118 Purgatives in lead colic, 188 Putty powder, 283 Pyorrhœa alveolaris as predisposing cause, 40, 124 Qualitative tests, 166 Quantitative estimation of lead, 170 Reactions of degeneration, 152 Red lead: manufacture of, 249; reported attacks in, 249 Relative toxic dose of lead compounds, 105 Repairs in factory as cause of plumbism, 10 Respirators, inefficiency of, 217 Respiratory absorption, 9 Rheumatic pains, 121, 161, 192 Safes, painting of, 290 Salivary glands and excretion of lead, 125 “Selective” action of lead on nerves, 147 Sequelæ of lead poisoning, 57, 60 Sex as affecting susceptibility, 35 Sheet lead, 241 Shipbuilding, 295; reported plumbism, 295 Shot-making, 298 Silicates of lead, 34 Silver refining. See Lead smelting Size of particles of lead compounds, 12, 34 Skin, colour of, 132 Smelting of lead. See Lead smelting Solar plexus, 65 Soldering, 261 Solubility: of lead salts, 5, 15, 16, 17; test for fritted lead, 14 Solvent action of peptone, 19 Spastic paraplegia, 68 Spiegeleisen, poisoning in manufacture of, 246 Spring tempering, fume from, 201, 296 Stained-glass painting, 285 Statistics of plumbism, 44, 45 Susceptibility, 27 Tape measures, painting of, 290 Tea lead, 251 Temperature in lead poisoning, 118 Tempering files, 200 Terne plates, 260 Tests for lead, 167 Tetramethyl diphenyl test, 169 Thorpe test, 275 Tiles. See Earthenware Tinning: of hollow-ware, 259; of harness furniture, 259; of irondrums, 260; dust in, 203; lead chloride fume in, 202-203; repeated attacks in, 261 Tolerance of lead, 28, 113 Toxic dose: of lead acetate, 110; of lead carbonate, 110; of lead dust, 31, 207; of fritted lead dust, 88, 97; of white-lead dust, 85 Treatment of acute lead poisoning, 111, 184 Tremor, 142, 156 Turpentine poisoning, experimental, 108 Type metal, 202 Urine: acidity, 181; chemical examination of, 180; determination of lead in, 167; lead in, 32, 73, 169; phosphates, 181 Vaso-motor changes, 65, 76, 140