Original scientific paper

The breathing of pneumoconiosis-producing dusts

C.N. Davies ; Medical Research Council, Environmental Hygiene Research Unit, London

Abstract

Pneumoconiosis-producing dusts must be insoluble or have a very slow solubility. Dusts which cause long termed cumulative effects act in three ways: by stimulating the growth of fibrous tissue (quartz), by producing mechanical injuries (asbestos, talc) and by accumulating of large quantities of particles in the lymphatic system and throughout the lung. Another kind of risk from dust accumulating in the lungs arises from radioactive materials, particularly from solid products of radioactive decay of radon. An association between the normal content of radon in the atmosphere and lung carcinoma in the general population cannot be dismissed as impossible when varying susceptibility is taken into account.

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Hrčak ID:

187052

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/187052

Publication date:

15.9.1953.

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