Lead Poisoning.
Chronic lead poisoning is a common disease among painters, plumbers, and other ■workera in lead. Men who work in whitelead factories are especially liable to be attacked. The lead may get into the system through the skin or the lungs or the stomach. The principal symptoms are ao increasing arnemia, a blue-black line along the margin: of the gums, repeated attacks of severe colic, paralysis of certain muscles, especially of the arnw>, and various mental symptoms sometimes attended with convulsions. Any or all of these symptoms may be present. According to the severity of the symptoms the outlook varies ; in mild cases recovery sfter suitable treatment ie usual. When convulsions or mental pymptome occur, the prospects are much more
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Otago Witness, Issue 2892, 18 August 1909, Page 76
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121Lead Poisoning. Otago Witness, Issue 2892, 18 August 1909, Page 76
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