Case finding of cotton yarn dust pneumoconiosis

Wood charcoal dust pneumoconiosis.

Pathology of nonasbestos pneumoconiosis (silicosis and mixed dust pneumoconiosis)

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Disabling pneumoconiosis from limestone dust.

Limestone dust is generally regarded as being relatively harmless. In this paper I wish to record eight cases of pneumoconiosis in limestone workers, in all of which limestone played the sole or principal aetiological part. My attention was first drawn to the condition in November, 1950, when I saw the chest radiograph of a patient whose occupation was limestone crushing. The appearances were m...

Pneumoconiosis due to graphite dust.

Lassar Dunner (1945a) recorded the clinical and radiological findings in five men who had been exposed to " pure graphite " dust. They had been exposed for 17, 18, 20, 20, and 34 years respectively, and no other dusts were known to have been implicated. Three of the men had cough, sputum, and dyspnoea; the other two had no complaints. Radiographs showed reticulation with nodulation, and the que...

Pneumoconiosis, coalmine dust and the PFR.

To celebrate BOHS’s 50th anniversary this year, we are reproducing in our on-line edition ‘classic papers’ from the past, with accompanying commentaries in the print and on-line edition. For this issue, the classic paper does not come from the Annals itself, but from the proceedings of one of the symposia on inhaled particles which BOHS organized about every five years from 1960 onwards. [The s...