Seven persons became affected with lead-poisoning through horse-hair coloured with lead.[830]
[830] Hitzig, Studien über Bleivergiftung.
The manufacture of American overland cloth creates a white-lead dust, which has caused serious symptoms among the workmen (Dr. G. Johnson). The cleaning of pewter pots,[831] the handling of vulcanised rubber,[832] the wrapping up of various foods in tinfoil,[833] and the fingering of lead counters covered with brine by fishmongers, have all caused accidents in men.
[831] Med. Gazette, xlviij. 1047.
[832] Pharm. Journ., 1870, p. 426.
[833] Taylor, Prin. Med. Jurisprud., i.