C3) The course of the illness, the absence of history or clinical evidence of lead intoxication and the laboratory findings led us to believe that plumbism ployed no role in the production of this man's illness.

Metal dust (grindings)-- Lead dusts........................

Underdrains leading to points of free discharge are placed in the gravel or crushed rock beds.

Then we have the Interstate Commerce Commission requirement of a poison label and another sticker giving the gross, tare and net weight and the cubic centimeter of lead content.

Such products as White Lead in Oil, Household Cement, etc., which are oot printed in these price lists, cannot be included in computing total galionage on an order.

It would be very valuable for me to know what stand the American govennment takes toward the use of lead paints.

I amvery much opposed to including in the Safety Manual information with respect to the manufacture- of tetraethyl lead and Ethyl Fluid.

.- Underdrains leading, to points of free discharge are placed in the gravel or crushed rock beds.

Conti may have been influenced in this matter by the fact that his mother, Nanna Conti, was not just head of Germany's primary midwife association (the Reichsfachschaft der Deutschen Hebammen) but also a member of the gov erning board of the German Antitobacco League, the leading anti tobacco association and the publisher of Reine Luft.44 What the episode does show, though, is that an antitobacco stance could put you in good stead with Nazi authorities--provided, of course, that you were not of Jewish ancestry and were willing to admit to the error of your ways.

This may lead to complaint of uneven heating and to unfair criticism of the heating device or the thermostats.

Listing virtually every known product in the field, this volume supplies also names and addresses, trade names and complete catalogs of leading manu facturers.

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EXHIBITORS Comprise leading firms in each phase of the industry; number has varied from 150 to 327 exhibitors.

No lead line present.

FILE NAME State of the Art Literature SAL DATE 1938 DOC SAL029 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Abstracts from The Journal of Industrial Hygiene & Toxicology LITERATURE OF INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE SUPPLEMENTARY TO THE JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE AND TOXICOLOGY VOLUME 20 JANUARY DECEMBER 1938 me ome PUBLISHED BY e THE WILLIAMS & WILKINS COMPANY Baltimore Md 184 JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE AND TOXICOLOGY vol 20 no8 Anaesthetized cats were given intratracheal insuffiations of fine bismuth car- bonate biamuth subnitrate and lead glass powders by means of a powder blower inserted through a bronchoscope Fluoro- scopy and roentgenograms demonstrated that in the dry state these opaque minera awere not carried into the terminal air spaces but remained adherent to the walls of bronchi lined with ciliated epithe lium The process of removal could be readily followed The column of dust on the mucosal surface moved upward with spiral motion Neutral bismuth carbonate was usually completely eliminated in 1 to 4 days the acid subnitrate was excreted slightly more rapidly and the lead glass had disappeared in from 7 hrs to 2 days The reaction of the mineral did not affect the rate of elimination a result at variance with those of other observers If the particles were suspended in fluid either saline or thin syrup they were carried into the terminal alveoli from which they were alowly excreted by the bronchial route over periods of weeks No evidence of drainage to lymph nodes could be discovered The authors suggest that inhalation of dust in the dry state might be less dangerous than if ja were moist The presence of sufficient amounts of water might permit the mineral particles to penetrate beyond the protective ciliary epithelium and allow gradual accumulation in the lungs U.Gardner U.Gardner number of cancers found is a very high one Of these 8 cases the site of the cancer in cases was the lower lobes in five there was a squamous epithelioma Three of the victims were less than 43 yrs old in all work with asbestos had begun 15-21 yra before After all the author seeme quite right in seeing causal relation be- tween asbestosis and lung cancer Teleky .