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LEAD POISONING

by Thomas Oliver

Published by H.K. Lewis. 1st. 1914

Slightly better than good condition. From the Industrial, Medical and Social Points of View, lectures delivered at The Royal Institute of Public Health. Blue cloth, gilt titles. Large folding b/w chart. 294 pages includes index.

Top and tail of spine worn. Corners rubbed. Front endpaper almost detached. Edges of text block grubby. Some minor pencil marks to text.

Stock no. 589742

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Contents

  • Lead smelting
  • Manufacture of red lead
  • Manufacture of white lead, or lead carbonate
  • Statistics of industrial lead poisoning
  • Lead paints and leadless paints
  • Lead poisoning among painters
  • Manufacture of china and earthenware
  • Manufacture of pottery as a home industry
  • Electrical accumlator works
  • Printing and type founding
  • Plumbing, dyeing, glass-making, tinning of hollow ware, and diamond cutting
  • How is lead poisoning caused?
  • Fume
  • Lead or its compounds in the form of dust
  • Onset of symptoms, and its relation to exposure to lead
  • Channels of entrance of the poison
  • Symptomatology
  • The blood in saturnine poisoning
  • Blue line on the gums
  • Colic and constipation
  • Types of industrial plumbism
  • Headache
  • Plumbism and loss of vision
  • Nervous system
  • Sensory symptoms
  • Saturnine pseudo-general paralysis: wassermann reaction
  • General pathological review of the subject
  • What amounts of lead are harmful?
  • Lead and female life
  • Lead and motherhood
  • Blood-pressure experiments
  • Blood pressue and working in lead
  • Chemical examination of the urine and of the organs of the body for lead
  • Anomalous symptoms due to drinking water contaminated by lead
  • What constitutes lead poisoning?
  • Treatment: Preventative
  • Treatment: Curative
  • Factory and workshop orders

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