The condition which is now known as lead poisoning was familiar even in ancient times. Hippocrates (370 B.C.) was probably the first to associate lead with certain symptoms, such as severe attack of colic in a man who extracted metals. The symptoms of lead poisoning were more clearly defined in the first century A.D. by Dioscorides, “the drinking of litharge (red lead) causes oppression to the stomach, belly, and intestines, by its severe pressure; it suppresses the urine, while the body swells and acquires an unsightly leaden line”. He also speaks of paralysis and delirium as consequences of the ingestion of lead.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.111534 |
| Date | January 1958 |
| Creators | Vardanis, Alexandre. |
| Contributors | Quastel, J. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Biology.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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