INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL MONOGRAPHS

General Editors {

Leonard Hill, M.B., F.R.S.
William Bulloch, M.D.

LEAD POISONING AND
LEAD ABSORPTION

THE
SYMPTOMS, PATHOLOGY AND PREVENTION,
WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THEIR

INDUSTRIAL ORIGIN AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE
PRINCIPAL PROCESSES INVOLVING RISK

BY
THOMAS M. LEGGE, M.D. Oxon., D.P.H. Cantab.
H.M. MEDICAL INSPECTOR OF FACTORIES; LECTURER ON FACTORY HYGIENE
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

AND
KENNETH W. GOADBY, M.R.C.S., D.P.H. Cantab.
PATHOLOGIST AND LECTURER ON BACTERIOLOGY, NATIONAL DENTAL HOSPITAL
APPOINTED SURGEON TO CERTAIN SMELTING AND WHITE
LEAD FACTORIES IN EAST LONDON

LONDON
EDWARD ARNOLD
NEW YORK: LONGMANS, GREEN & CO.
1912
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