Endemic Fluorosis in Western Kweichow
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area. He was also asked to see one or two people who were suffering from stiffness of the joints, especially in the spine. Suspecting the possibility of fluorine intoxication he took some samples of well water. They showed varying contents of fluorine, one specimen as hfgh as 12 parts per million. In 1941 the work was continued by Dr. T. S. Outerbridge then stationed at Chaotung, a city in Yunnan, one day's journey from Stonegateway. Outerbridge did a house-to-house examination of all the people in the village from whence the cases of
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