- Abortion caused by lead, 35
- Absorption of lead: cutaneous, 25;
from lung, 23;
gastric, 19;
intestinal, 21, 22;
in liver, 24;
mechanism of, 20;
prevention of, from stomach, 23
- Accumulators. See Electric accumulators
- Acetate of lead, poisoning by, 94
- Acetic acid, solvent action of, on lead oxide, 15
- Acid lemonade, 185
- Acidity, gastric contents, 15
- Action of lead: on gold and silver, 3;
on water, 3
- Acute encephalopathy, 54, 95
- Acute lead poisoning, 110, 111
- Acute nephritis, 60, 131
- Aerographing, 272, 280
- Ætiology of lead poisoning, 7
- Age as affecting lead poisoning, 35, 239
- Akremnin soap, 238
- Albuminate of lead, preparation of, 17
- Albuminuria, 128
- Albuminuric retinitis, 160
- Alcohol: as predisposing cause, 37, 64;
gastritis and plumbism, 64;
in experimental poisoning, 85;
similar effect to lead on kidney, 131
- Alteration in blood-corpuscles in lead anæmia, 133
- Alternation of employment, 34, 251
- Amaurosis, 70, 160
- Amblyopia, 76
- Amenorrhœa, 36
- Anæmia, 39, 112, 132, 136,
227;
treatment of, 190
- Anemometers, 219
- Antibrachial paralysis, 144, 148
- Antimony, effect of, on lead fume, 199
- Appointed surgeon, 112, 221
- Aran-Duchenne paralysis, 149
- Armit, nickel poisoning, 11
- Arsenic: Cloetta’s experiments, 24;
excretion of, in fæces, 24
- Arterio-sclerosis, 116
- Arthralgia, 50, 161
- Arthritis, 40
- Artificial gastric juice, action of, 17
- Atrophic nerve changes, 69
- Attack rate from lead poisoning (table), 55
- Autopsy, points to be noted in, 162
- Bacup epidemic, 4
- Basophile granules, 77, 133, 135,
179
- Baths, 238
- Blood: action of lead salts on, 2;
in lead poisoning, 70, 78, 134, 179;
pressure, 116, 180;
vessels, 68, 70, 75
- Blue line, 122, 123, 128,
226;
experimental production of, 41, 124;
from diachylon, 13
- Brachial paralysis, 148
- Brain, analysis of, 96
- Brass, presence of lead in, 263
- Brassworkers and plumbism, 51, 263
- Breathing experiments, 81
- Bright’s disease and lead poisoning, 60
- Burtonian line. See Blue line
- Carbon in lung, 11
- Card system, use of, 186
- Central nervous system, 69, 157;
treatment, 196
- Cerebral symptoms, 51, 157
- Certifying surgeons, reports of, 45, 221
- Chandelier fitters, poisoning among, 264
- Channels of lead absorption, 8
- Chemical analysis of brain, 95
- Chemical characters of lead salts, 4
- Chemical diagnosis, 166
- Chemical examination of organs, 163
- Chemistry of lead, 2
- Choroidal atrophy, 161
- Chromate of lead in yarn-dyeing, 298
- Chrome colours, 287
- Chronic colic, 119
- Circulatory system, 75, 137
- Cirrhosis of kidney, 74
- Coach-painting, 288;
dust in atmosphere breathed, 205;
leadless paints, 290;
reported cases from, 289;
sandpapering in, 289
- Colic, 116, 117,
118, 119, 188, 190;
differential diagnosis, 188;
treatment of, 187
- Colloidal lead, 5
- Colon, palpation of, 126
- Colours, 285
- Comparative mortality, 59
- Conjunctiva in lead anæmia, 132
- Constipation, 115
- Copper extraction, plumbism in, 246
- Cutaneous absorption, 25
- Death certificates in plumbism, 57
- Degeneration of blood vessels, 68
- Determination of lead in urine, 169
- Diachylon, 13
- Diagnosis: from chemical analysis, 166;
of lead colic, 120, 188
- Diarrhœa, 115
- Differential count in lead anæmia, 134, 137, 180
- Digestion experiments, 16, 17
- Drink for lead-workers, 186
- Drugs in lead colic, 189
- Duration of employment and plumbism, 52
- Dust, lead: amount of, in air breathed, 199, 207;
chief cause of plumbism, 10;
“laying,” difficulties of, 11;
rate of settling, 7;
respirators for, 207
- Dysmenorrhœa, 36
- Earthenware: and china, 270;
attack rate, 56;
decorative processes, 272;
dust in atmosphere, 204, 206;
glaze processes, 272;
leadless glaze, 274;
low solubility glaze, 274;
Potteries Committee on, recommendations of, 275;
reported cases in (table), 271
- Electric accumulators, 281;
reported plumbism in, 283;
ventilation in, 216
- Electrical reactions, 151, 153, 154
- Electrical treatment, 194
- Electro-chemical tests, 168
- Electrolytic estimation of lead, 174;
reactions, 5
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Ventilation (exhaust), 207-220;
by fans, 210;
by heat, 208;
composing boxes, 255;
essential points, 208;
in earthenware, 273;
in electric accumulators, 216, 282;
in enamelling, 278;
in glass-cutting, 284;
in india-rubber, 302;
in lead smelting, 245;
in litharge, 251;
in paints, 215, 286;
in printing foundry, 254;
in red lead, 250;
in spelter, 249;
in tinning, 259;
in vacuum cleaning, 218;
in white lead, 214, 268;
in yarn-heading, 300;
smoke-test, 218
- Volatility of lead, 2
- Washing accommodation, 235
- Wasting in lead poisoning, 113, 115, 145
- Water, action on lead, 3, 4
- White lead: Brimsdown process, 269;
casual labour in, 269;
cause of dangers in, 266;
chamber process, 268;
diminution in reported cases, 270;
Dutch process, 265;
precipitation process, 269;
ventilation in, 214
- Works’ medicines, 185
- Wrist-drop. See Paralysis
- Yarn-dyeing with chromate of lead, 298
- Zinc: action on kidney, 130;
paints, 292, 294