Lead poisoning, from the industrial, medical, and social points of view : lectures delivered at the Royal institute of Public Health / by Sir Thomas Oliver.

  • Oliver, Thomas, Sir, 1853-1942.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Lead poisoning, from the industrial, medical, and social points of view : lectures delivered at the Royal institute of Public Health / by Sir Thomas Oliver. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to the plumbism of painters, it is that, owing to the gradual absorption of lead, the malady develops slowly and is usually associated with some such lesion of the nervous system as paraly- sis or with implication of the kidneys. It is seldom that a painter dies from uncomplicated and acute lead poisoning. Among the common complaints of painters may be mentioned constipation and headache. Some writers state that 50 per cent, of the men suffer thus. This is, I think, pitching the number too high. House, ship, and coach painters are credited with a large number of ailments, of which the following may be mentioned: Colic, ringing noises in the ears, vertigo, rheu- matic pains, nocturnal micturition, disagreeable taste in the mouth, disordered sensations, imper- fect vision, epistaxis, loss of appetite, sleepless- ness, diarrhoea, tremors, gout, and depression of spirits. Manufacture of China and Earthenware This important industry, although met with in various parts of England and Scotland, is mostly located in the north of Staffordshire, where, when first commenced, it was close to the clay and coal fields, and where at the present time it gives employment directly and. indirectly to several