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The authors survey lead’s chemistry, historical uses, and the routes and mechanisms of absorption, emphasizing inhalation of dust in industrial settings. They examine susceptibility, statistical occurrence, pathological changes, nervous system effects, methods for detecting and measuring lead, excretion, clinical symptoms, and treatment. Detailed experimental findings are presented to clarify causation and inform prevention, and practical recommendations focus on engineering controls such as local exhaust ventilation and workplace hygiene. Descriptions of hazardous processes and discussion of regulatory and technical measures aim to translate clinical and laboratory knowledge into strategies for reducing occupational lead risk.

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Title: Lead poisoning and lead absorption

The symptoms, pathology and prevention, with special reference to their industrial origin, and an account of the principal processes involving risk

Author: Sir Thomas Morison Legge

Kenneth Weldon Goadby

Release date: December 3, 2023 [eBook #72301]

Language: English

Original publication: London: Edward Arnold, 1912

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LEAD POISONING AND LEAD ABSORPTION

INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL MONOGRAPHS

General Editors {

Leonard Hill, M.B., F.R.S.
William Bulloch, M.D.

 

THE VOLUMES ALREADY PUBLISHED OR IN
PREPARATION ARE:

THE MECHANICAL FACTORS OF DIGESTION. By Walter B. Cannon, A.M., M.D., George Higginson Professor of Physiology, Harvard University. [Ready.

SYPHILIS: FROM THE MODERN STANDPOINT. By James Macintosh, M.D., Grocers’ Research Scholar; and Paul Fildes, M.D., B.C., Assistant Bacteriologist to the London Hospital. [Ready.

BLOOD-VESSEL SURGERY AND ITS APPLICATIONS. By Charles Claude Guthrie, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Pittsburgh, etc. [Ready.

CAISSON SICKNESS AND THE PHYSIOLOGY OF WORK in Compressed Air. By Leonard Hill, M.B., F.R.S., Lecturer on Physiology, London Hospital. [Ready.

LEAD POISONING AND LEAD ABSORPTION. By Thomas Legge, M.D., D.P.H., H.M. Medical Inspector of Factories, etc.; and Kenneth W. Goadby, D.P.H., Pathologist and Lecturer on Bacteriology, National Dental Hospital.

THE PROTEIN ELEMENT IN NUTRITION. By Major D. McCay, M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O., M.R.C.P., I.M.S., Professor of Physiology, Medical College, Calcutta, etc.

SHOCK: The Pathological Physiology of Some Modes of Dying. By Yandell Henderson, Ph.D., Professor of Physiology, Yale University.

THE CARRIER PROBLEM IN INFECTIOUS DISEASE. By J. C. Ledingham, D.Sc., M.B., M.A., Chief Bacteriologist, Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, London; and J. A. Arkwright, M.A., M.D., M.R.C.P., Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, London.

DIABETES. By J. J. MacLeod, Professor of Physiology, Western Reserve Medical College, Cleveland, U.S.A.

A Descriptive Circular of the Series will be sent free on
application to the Publishers:

LONDON: EDWARD ARNOLD

New York: Longmans, Green & Co.

INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL MONOGRAPHS

General Editors {

Leonard Hill, M.B., F.R.S.
William Bulloch, M.D.

 

LEAD POISONING AND
LEAD ABSORPTION

THE
SYMPTOMS, PATHOLOGY AND PREVENTION,
WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THEIR

INDUSTRIAL ORIGIN AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE
PRINCIPAL PROCESSES INVOLVING RISK

BY
THOMAS M. LEGGE, M.D. Oxon., D.P.H. Cantab.
H.M. MEDICAL INSPECTOR OF FACTORIES; LECTURER ON FACTORY HYGIENE
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

AND
KENNETH W. GOADBY, M.R.C.S., D.P.H. Cantab.
PATHOLOGIST AND LECTURER ON BACTERIOLOGY, NATIONAL DENTAL HOSPITAL
APPOINTED SURGEON TO CERTAIN SMELTING AND WHITE
LEAD FACTORIES IN EAST LONDON

LONDON
EDWARD ARNOLD
NEW YORK: LONGMANS, GREEN & CO.
1912

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