Professional paper
Chronical mercury poisoning
Milko Peče
; Ambulanta za poklicne bolezni Ljubljana
Abstract
The author found in a felt-hat factory, where the nitrate of mercury Is used for impregnation, that of a number of 142 workmen there were only 13 showing no symptoms of mercury poisoning. In a detailed analysis of the symptoms of chronical poisoning he attributes in the development of the clinical picture a particular importance to erethism, and then to tremor and to chronical vasomotor disturbances (cyanosis, cold and wet hands, dermographism). Toxic symptoms in the mouth occupy only the fourth place. He did not notice lesions of the teeth but only the appearance of dryness in the mouth and the nose. Nervous lesions mostly had a neuralgic character, with most varied localizations. He ascribes disturbances of digestive organs, which are not of an exclusively toxic character to preponderantly toxic; lesions of nerves. Thus is confirmed by the fact in the course of chronical poisoning he did not found a single lesion of the kidney. He considers mercury vapours as almost the only cause of chronical poisoning.
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Hrčak ID:
189417
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Publication date:
26.9.1950.
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