INDUSTRIAL POISONING
FROM FUMES, GASES AND POISONS
OF MANUFACTURING PROCESSES
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
LEAD POISONING
AND LEAD ABSORPTION:
THE SYMPTOMS, PATHOLOGY ANDPREVENTION, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCETO THEIR INDUSTRIALORIGIN AND AN ACCOUNT OF THEPRINCIPAL PROCESSES INVOLVINGRISK.
By THOMAS M. LEGGE M.D. (Oxon.), D.P.H.(Cantab.), H.M. Medical Inspector of Factories;Lecturer on Factory Hygiene, University ofManchester; and KENNETH W. GOADBY,D.P.H. (Cantab.), Pathologist and Lectureron Bacteriology, National Dental Hospital.Illustrated. viii+308 pp. 12s. 6d. net.
London: EDWARD ARNOLD.
INDUSTRIAL POISONING
FROM FUMES, GASES AND POISONS
OF MANUFACTURING PROCESSES
BY
DR. J. RAMBOUSEK
PROFESSOR OF FACTORY HYGIENE,
AND CHIEF STATE HEALTH OFFICER, PRAGUE
TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY
THOMAS M. LEGGE, M.D., D.P.H.
H.M. MEDICAL INSPECTOR OF FACTORIES
JOINT AUTHOR OF ‘LEAD POISONING AND LEAD ABSORPTION’
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON
EDWARD ARNOLD
1913
TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE
I undertook the translation of Dr. Rambousek’s book becauseit seemed to me to treat the subject of industrial poisons inas novel, comprehensive, and systematic a manner as waspossible within the compass of a single volume. Havinglearnt much myself from Continental writings on industrialdiseases and factory hygiene, I was anxious to let others alsosee how wide a field they had covered and how thoroughwere the regulations for dangerous trades abroad, especiallyin Germany. A praiseworthy feature of Dr. Rambousek’sbook was the wealth of references to the work of foreignwriters which is made on almost every page. To have leftthese names and references, however, in the text as he hasdone would have made the translation tedious reading, andtherefore for the sake of those who desire to pursue inquiryfurther I have adopted the course of collecting the greatmajority and placing them all together in an appendix atthe end of the volume.
Dr. Rambousek as a medical man, a chemist, anda government official having control of industrial matters,is equipped with the very special knowledge required todescribe the manufacturing processes giving rise to injuriouseffects, the pathology of the lesions set up, and the preventivemeasures necessary to combat them. In his references towork done in this country he has relied largely on abstractswhich have appeared in medical and technical journals publishedon the Continent. I have only thought it necessaryto amplify his statements when important work carried outhere on industrial poisoning,—such as that on nickel carbonyl[vi]and on ferro-silicon—had been insufficiently noted. Suchadditions are introduced in square brackets or in footnotes.
In his preface Dr. Rambousek says ‘the book is intendedfor all who are, or are obliged to be, or ought to be, interestedin industrial poisoning.’ No words could better describe thescope of the book.
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