Cyclopaedia Of The Diseases Of Children Medical And Surgical V 2 1892 94

Author : John Marie Keating
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230180243
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Cyclopædia of the Diseases of Children; Medical and Surgical written by John Marie Keating and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...in coloring articles of domestic use, and certain glazes. Of some of these pigments arsenic is a fixed component; while it is used in the manufacture only of others, and can be removed from them by a proper purification, which, of course, somewhat increases the cost1 of the product. Of the latter class are many of the aniline dyes; and this may suffice to call to mind the general fact that numerous colors besides green are to be suspected. The following list, condensed from those given in the papers of Dr. Jabez Hogg,2 and the reports by the Committee of the English National Health Society,3 and by Draper4 and Wood, will indicate the range of materials containing arsenic which might be sources of danger to children: fancy colored papers, both in sheets and as used for covering or making boxes, toys, and confectionery, lamp-shades, labels, books; artificial flowers and leaves; wax ornaments; clothing, and curtains printed or woven; fur niture-coveriug (perambulators); colored toys; oil-colors for decorative purposes; japanned goods; Venetian and other blinds; linen glaze (rarely), and glazed paper collars; flannel and calico shirts; the linings of boots, coat-sleeves, and hats; colored chalk; stockings; and foulard cambric. Green tarlatan contains enormous quantities of arsenic, applied so loosely that it readily flies off, and both workers and weavers of this fabric have frequently been actually poisoned. This material, though now rarely made into dresses, is still largely used for decorative and other purposes. A recent investigation in England, by A. W. Stokes," shows that the danger from these various sources is not a matter of the past. The external use of arsenic on raw surfaces, and even on the sound skin, whether in the form...