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Hull-House, Chicago. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS WASHINGTON Feb. 14th 1919 .Dr. David Eds all harvard Medical School Boston, Mass. D ear Dr. Eds all: Thank you for your fall letter about my appointment I think it means that while I had better make my plans to come to Boston next September, it is not yet time for me to proclaim to my wor'1^4 the honor that may come to me. I am not sure that I understand just how much of an outline of a course in poisons you want me to make, nor is it easy to make one without knowing how many hours I should be expected to fill. However, I am enclosing one based on the course I am giving now for the third time at Chicago University. This is only a skeleton and if you would like one more descriptive, of course I could remake it. It does not seem to me to infringe on any of the.other fields, so far as I can make out from the list of lectures you give me. It would be very interesting indeed to make visits: with the class to factories and I shall be glad to do so* Sincerely yours yi Course of Lectures in Industrial Poisoning. 1. Introduction. Available data in'foreign and American literature Methods of investigation. Limitations of foreign literature when applied to American conditions. 2. Influence on Industrial Poisoning of Heat and Humidity, Long hours, heavy work., immaturity of workers, poverty. 3. Influence of individual susceptibility, sex, race, climate, 4. Lead. Mode of absorption, compounds used in industry, and thieib toxicity. 5. Lead. Amount of lead required to produce toxic symptoms, length of exposure, predisposing factors. 6. Lead. Symptoms of lead poisoning. Diagnosis. Unusual forms. 7. Lead. Central nervous system. Localization of lead p&lsy. encephalopathy. Disturbances of vision. Unusual forms of plumbism of central nervous system. Lead BcaLead industries. Smelting and refining. Metallic lead trades. Soldering and lead burning. 9. Lead industries. Typographical trades. White lead. 10. Lead industries. Lead oxides. Potteries and tile works. Enamel led sanitary ware. 11. Lead industries. Storage batteries. 12. Prevention of lead poi^/soning.'^ Color grinding. Painting. 13.Antimony. Zinc. Brass. Copper. 14. Mercury. Phosphorus? 15. Arsenic. Manganese. 16. Mineral acids and their gashes. Ammonia, he. ;.c. 17. Petroleum and the fatty series. Benzine. Ether etc. 18. " " n " *' " " " Alcohols. Aldehydes etc. 19. Carbon disulphide^, carbon tetrachloride, and the rubber industry 20. Coal tar series. 22.Manufacture of explosives. 33. Carbonmonoxide, 24.Mine gas s. Miscellaneous poisons of minor importance N41764.01