Our domestic poisons; or, the poisonous effects of certain dyes & colours : (especially those containing arsenic) used in domestic fabrics / By Henry Carr.

  • Carr, Henry.
Date:
1883
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Credit: Our domestic poisons; or, the poisonous effects of certain dyes & colours : (especially those containing arsenic) used in domestic fabrics / By Henry Carr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    But tlie skin afifection was only a minor part of the suffering. Of twenty-five of the sufferers whom Dr. Guy examined^ nearly all showed signs, often highly developed, of chronic arsenical poisoning; excessive thirst j nausea and loss of appetite; sickness and vomiting, often with pain in the stomach; palpitation and shortness of breath; debility, fever, headache, drowsiness, dimness of sight and tremblings, nervous twitchings or convulsions. Of the whole group of twenty-five females (says Dr. Guy), four only did not complain of weakness; and of the remaining twenty- one, there were again only four who did not describe the weakness as extreme. Febrile symptoms were present in no less than twenty cases, in five of whicli they amounted to feverishness, while in the remainder they were described as fever. Headache was an almost universal symptom. It was absent in two cases only, and was described as not severe in only three cases. Dimness of sight was complained of in two- thirds of the cases. In one the eyes were very sore, in another the sight was greatly impaired. Drowsiness was present as a marked sympton in every instance but one, and in two cases only was it spoken of as a trivial circumstance. Tremblings and convulsive twitchings were present in seven cases out of the twenty-five, and in one other instance well marked convulsions were present. One case of death is described, the symptoms of