The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine (1906) (14755247844)

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Title: The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine

Year: 1906 (1900s)

Authors: American Radium Society American Roentgen Ray Society

Subjects: Radiotherapy X-rays

Publisher: Springfield, Ill. C.C. Thomas

Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto

Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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atory actionof the portions of the chest, and palpationof the same at work shows limited expansionin the compressed areas thus allowing moredust to find a resting place in that portion ofthe lung receiving most air. It has beenstated by other observers that the progressof the lung lesion was greater on the right ing the part of the lung in which a lunglesion from inhalation of granite dust has itsinception. EVIDENCE GAINED FROM NON-SERIAL FILMS In a work of this kind one must of neces-sity studv non-serial films, because it takes acutter thirty years to produce a lung lesionwhich would be diagnosed if he iiad consti-tutional symptoms as lobar pneumonia. Ittakes him between twenty and twenty-fiveyears to produce a lung lesion which wouldbe diagnosed as broncho-pneumonia if hehad constitutional symptoms. It is mani-festly impossible to follow an individualcutter bv means of serial films through thirtyvears of granite dust inhalation. For laborturnover, the migratorv nature of the cutter

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Fig. II (319). Exposure thirty-two years. Showing Fig. 12 (270). Exposure thirty-five years. Taken Sep-progress of right basal condition. Xo symptoms. temtier 8, 1919. Notice right l)asal condition. side below the clavicle, but the experience inBarre would lead one to suspect that theoccupational position of the workers ex-amined was dififerent from that of thegranite cutters. It would seem, then, thatoccupational position is a factor in determin- and the ever recurring strikes necessitatinghis seeking emplovment in other industriesfor the time being at least, and from whichhe often fails to return if the occupationalenvironment is congenial, are conditions in-compatible with serial films extending over 254 Roentgen Study of Dust Inhalation in the Granite Industry

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1906

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