Diseases of occupation from the legislative, social, and medical points of view / by Thomas Oliver.

  • Oliver, Thomas, Sir, 1853-1942.
Date:
[1908]
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    Peacock on miners’ phthisis, 280 Pearson on miners’ phthisis, 280 Pelton Fell, incident at, recounted, 61 Penrhyn slate quarries, 302 Perroncito, Dr., on ankylostomiasis in miners of the St. Gothard Tunnel, 313, 314, 320 Persigny, M., attitude of, on the use of white lead, 189 Perroud, his investigations on phthisis among the sailors on the Rhone, 15 Persia, impure wool from, 336 Persian pottery, 168 Peru, mining in, 118 Petrol, poisonous vapours given off by, 85, 86 Phosphorus described, 35 ; manu- facture of white, 36 ; used in the manufacture of matches, 36; poisonous qualities of, 36 ; com- mittee to inquire into poisonous effects of, 36; effects of its fumes on the teeth, 43, 44 ; ex- periments upon animals with, 45 ; affections arising from, 46 ; statistics of poisoning from, 47, 48 ; use of sesquisulphide of, 49-51 ; prohibition of, 52, 53 Phosphorus necrosis, or “phossy jaw,” 37, 44 ; described, 44, 45 ; immunity of animals from, 45 ; statistics of, 47, 50; treatment of, 52 Petrow, his experiments on ani- mals with tubercle bacilli, 17 Phthisis, see Tuberculosis Pidoux, Dr., 178 Pitch, 332 Playfair, Dr. Lyon, 405 Plumbism, see Lead Poisoning Pneumokonioses, 247-310 Pneumonia, injury as a deter- mining cause of, considered, 21-23 ; dust as a predisposing cause of, 244; among miners, 290-94, 302, 303, 310 “ Poisons Industries ” quoted, 84 Pol and Watelle on compressed- air illness, 93 Polishing of precious stones, 172 ; of metals, 230 Pollender, bacillus anthracis dis- covered by, 334 Pope, Pearson & Co., Messrs., collieries, 409 Posnett, W. G. T., pathologist to the Johannesburg Hospital, 321 Pottery manufacture, 157; health of workers considered, 307-10 Pott’s disease, 30 Preshel, his large match factory in Vienna, 40 Prettin on pulmonary emphysema in glass-blowers, 377 Prevost, Professor, of Geneva Uni- versity, 350 Printing works, health of workers in, 178-81 Probsting, Dr., oculist, 379 Proust, his opinion on the manu- facture of tobacco causing dis- eases of the lungs, 264 Prussia, statistics of accidents in coal-mines in, 275 Prussian blue, manufacture of, 77 Purdon, Dr. H. S., on the maladies of linen workers, 254 Putty powder, 181 Q Quilimane, death - rate among native miners from, 289 R Racing of grindstones, 230 Rag sorting, 260 Rammazini, miners’ phthisis de- scribed by, 280, 307 Rand miners’ phthisis, 276-85 Ransome, Dr., on the Committee appointed to inquire into the ventilation of factories, 251 Ravenhal of Pennsylvania, 337 Raymondaud, Dr., 309 Red lead, see Lead Redruth tin-mines, 300 Reichenberg, polishing industry at, 172 Relm, German surgeon, on aniline poisoning, 127, 128 Rescue work in mines, 304-12