4 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1929
Clinical aspects of pulmonary asbestosis
…read at the 1929 Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association in Manchester, described asbestos workers seen in a general practice in Leeds. In 1926 the author and a colleague noticed that several patients with chest…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1929
Pulmonary Asbestosis: Radiographic Apprearances In Skiagrams Of The Chests Of Workers In Asbestos
…mottling, signs of pleurisy at the lung bases, and thickening of the pleura at the lung tops. In general, the density and extent of the shadows were proportional to the length of exposure. Three patients died…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1928
Pulmonary Asbestosis
…of pulmonary asbestosis. A woman began to cough soon after starting work in an asbestos factory at age 13. Her general health did not suffer until 26, she was totally incapacitated five years later, and she…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1927
Histology of Pulmonary Asbestosis
…test. Zoologists judged them not animal, and the general opinion of botanical and chemical experts was that they were not plant forms. The author proposed that they were asbestos fibres slowly altered by chemical breakdown. The…