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DATE 1923 DOC SAL005
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Journal Article - Pulmonary Asbestosis
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PULMONARY ASBESTOSIS
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reported was in 1924.
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case of pulmonary asbestosis W. Cooke has just made a woman who began to cough
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soon after she started work in an asbestos factory at
the age of 13 years Her general health did not suller until she was 26. Five years later she was totally
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incapacitated and she died at 33. Her complaints had been cough dyspuca expectoration and lassitude and the physical signs those of fibrosis and cavitation of the lungs Postmortem examination of the patient's lungs revealed diffuse interstitial pneumonia chronie
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of workers in the process of manufacture
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Although Cooke's case is only the second
many other cases seem to have occurred
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who had worked in
One patient
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of ten men who had started
only better him Conditions are
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with devices for removing the
Nevertheless
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because of its dangers features deserves more
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devices at the command of the body
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death under conditions that would tax
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of the most ingenious physician
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of the mechanisms on which the
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involve chemical reactions Thus
and alkalls tend to become neutralizaendd conse-
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ried by the blood stream toward the heart This migration may take hours or days but eventually these
wandering bodies reach the heart It was surprising
to learn further however that the majority of these
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the pulmonary artery and Indge in the lungs where
they produce infarcts with apparently little disturban to the pulmonary circulation The presence of the
foreign bodies within the lungs appears to cause little discomfort Abscess of the lungs rarely occurred Apparently sterilized foreign objects in the venous circulation do little harm to the heart or lungs ani
unsterilized objects which are smooth and symmetric rarely cause infection Unsterilized irregularly shaped bodies as nails or fragments of nails are most
dangerous and give rise to abscesses
It will come as a surprise to learn from Warthen
that it is possible for objects to pass from the venous
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without or
otherwise altered occurring in the lungs without leaving any
evidence of pulmonary injury He notes as others
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foreign insoluble
such as
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alientary canal traverse without ai traverse
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pieces
traverse the
the most part to
serious injury
open safety pin has given many
worries until it emerged with-
have observed that the smaller more symmetrical
lighter objects in the venous circulation tend to remain in the heart while the larger more irregular and
heavier bodies are carried into the lungs Foreign bodies that remain in the heart appear to lodge near
the apex of the right ventricle at the base of the chordae tendineae As this is the most accessible region of the heart in man the newly developed of intracardiac surgery may be requisitioned whenever foreign objects thus lodged demand removal
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THE DANGERS OF ULTRAVIOLET RAYS
The tendency of therapeutic methods to be adopted and discarded in great waves of popularity and forget-
fulness has never been so completely manifested as in - the current attention given to the use of physical thera-
the
Where does it go
peutic methods particularly the ultraviolet ray Not
the
by
* has left him only do barber shops swindle prospective victims of
wandering foreign bodies in baldness with incandescent lamps colored purple not
the
are carried by the blood stream only do electrical corporations sell as ultraviolet ray
where they are kept motion by the in
devices contraptions delivering hardly any ultraviolet
radiation at all but some manufacturers of apparatus
become entangled
and
actually delivering ultraviolet rays of potency endear endear
the right ventricle
to place these devices wherever a sale can possibly be ever
the endocardium No mention made Regardless of the fact that practically ever
foreign
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reaching the lungs In his Hospital Richmond Va
course taken by foreign bodies in
and sizes virculation of the
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their ultimate lodging
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series of animals
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method in medicine that may do good can also do harm
these machines are being sold to bailt institutes swier swier
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ming pools massage parlors beauty parlors cluce
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barber shops and innumerable tier businesses in
which medical cupervision is certainly not pronain~ indeed hardly possible The sales are made notW
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revealed that the rays way in
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effects for the eyes that orane
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