used test for serial distribution of airway obstruction [2] and in Background: A recent review in silica dust exposed diagnosing chronic obstructive workers focused on airway obstruction and the variables disease in surveys of air pollution used were forced vital capacity (FVC), FEV1 and FEV1%. etc. Tests of peak flow (PEF), MEFR Original Article Nellore Mohan Rao, Ramnath Takiar, Yashwant K. S...

The mortality patterns of United Kingdom tin miners were examined in relation to calendar period and duration of underground work with particular attention to lung cancer and exposure to radon. Subjects were all men who had worked for at least one year between 1941 and 1984 at one of two United Kingdom tin mines and for whom a complete work history could be constructed from mine records. Standa...

Initially, lung injury caused by chemicals was primarily associated with certain professions and occupations. In his classic treatise of 1713, the Italian physician Bernardino Ramazzini provided detailed and harrowing accounts of the sufferings of miners, whose ailments had been known and described since antiquity. Two of Ramazzini’s quotations are noteworthy. With regard to miners of metals, h...