Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 May 2009
The incidence of Industrial Lead Poisoning is closely related to those sections of the manufactures which involve the production of dust. In white-lead works, paint-grinding shops, litharge grinding, electrical accumulator works, etc., the dust takes the form of minute particles of the special compound of lead manipulated by the workman. In smelting, desilverising, trimming metals and in file cutting, finely divided metallic lead, or a lead oxide, is present in the workshop air.
page 126 note 1 Full details of the experiments are given in the Tables.
page 128 note 1 Both samples were tested for digestive efficiency and acidity. No. 2 shewed a slight excess of both total and volatile acidity over normal gastric contents.