HSCI 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Percivall Pott, Mercury Poisoning, Baud
21 Jan 2018
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List historical examples in which disasters and/or occupational exposures provided information on the health risks of an exposure. Historically, we learned much about environmental health risks after widespread occupational exposures or accidents/disasters: These events were an early indication that a product, chemical, or activity was unsafe. Chirurgical observations relative to the cataract, the polypus of the nose, the cancer of the scrotum (1775) There is a disease as peculiar to a certain set of people, which has not, at least to my knowledge, been publickly noticed; i mean the chimney-sweepers cancer. Recgonized chimney sweeper kids got the same disease: radium dial painters. Thought to have medical benefits, e. g. arthritis treatment. One desirable" property of radium is ability to cause some specific materials to fluoresce. Watches/clocks painted with radium-containing paint could be read in the dark. Would get cancers and sores in mouth or breast cancer: london fog.
