INDEX
- 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]
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