ISBN: 1235879755

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Paperback, [EAN: 9781235879753], RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Book, [PU: RareBooksClub.com], RareBooksClub.com, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...ordinary products of the distillation of coal. A 5s of the Bame quality was procured, and likewise a naphthous fluid holding in solution a crystalline principle, analogous to, if not identified with, naptlialine." Now the man, whose lungs presented the appearances I have described, had, for the lat ten or twelve years of his life, been employed in the coal mines at Dalkeith. He bad been exposed therefore to the habitual inhalation of coal dust into his lungs in breathing: and taking this circumstance a conjunction with the result of the analysis of the black matter contained in the lungs, and no where else throughout the 'xxly, we cannot doubt that the carbonareous substance so abundant in these orgnns wti introduced from without. In truth we bate now a large collection of evidence in proof that it must have been so. In the '-'1st volume of the Medieo-Chirurgical Trmmctiont, Dr. William Thompson has redded the results of extensive enquiries into 'bis subject. Thus he gives ten examples of black sputa going along with pulmonary symptoms during life, and of black infiltration of the lungs discovered after death; "ad of the ten persons who were the subjects these observations, nine had been enP?ed in working coal mines, and the tenth was a moulder at the Carron iron works. "e gives also six cases of black infiltration ' the lungs, all occurring in persons ex posed to the inhalation of carbonaceous matters (one of them was an engineer, and the others were all colliers) j but in these six cases there had been no black expectoration noticed during life. That such carbonaceous particles, floating in the atmosphere, may be, and must be, and actually are, drawn into the lungs during inspiration, no one who has been long in this smoky town can doubt. M..., 1000, Subjects, 1, Arts & Photography, 2, Biographies & Memoirs, 3, Business & Money, 3248857011, Calendars, 4, Children's Books, 12290, Christian Books & Bibles, 4366, Comics & Graphic Novels, 5, Computers & Technology, 6, Cookbooks, Food & Wine, 48, Crafts, Hobbies & Home, 21, Education & Reference, 173507, Engineering & Transportation, 301889, Gay & Lesbian, 10, Health, Fitness & Dieting, 9, History, 86, Humor & Entertainment, 10777, Law, 17, Literature & Fiction, 173514, Medical Books, 18, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, 20, Parenting & Relationships, 3377866011, Politics & Social Sciences, 22, Religion & Spirituality, 23, Romance, 75, Science & Math, 25, Science Fiction & Fantasy, 4736, Self-Help, 26, Sports & Outdoors, 28, Teen & Young Adult, 27, Travel, 283155, Books<

2012, ISBN: 9781235879753

General Books LLC , May-2012. softcover. New. pp. 746, General Books LLC