Show I o DP-o S N PERIL ERIL UL f 1 fIS I I IS BEING I is the see sec Note T Editors Editor's on I three series of ond nd of a poisons Tomorrow Industrial Phosphorus and Radium FISHBEIN DR MORRIS By Journal of the American Editor Association and of Hygeia Hy Hy- Medical Magazine the Health geis geia of In- In cases o In 1900 t o arsenic due to poisoning were reported to the British otti office e and o of these there three deaths In 1926 th there re i e C five cases cases' three deaths a and d in 1927 three if c 9 with one death Many years ago ngo before well wed what we WO now know relative to danger o of this chemical Its enco In wall papers and in p resulted disastrously for hunot hun hum of ot peopleS people 1 REPLACE POISONS J J JIn In Great Britain the copper and the acetate of co I which used to o be used have havel replaced by harmless pigment In his consideration of th the thel gers of ot this metal before belore the ir national congress for Industrial i and occupations Sir Tlc Oliver cited as the tho chief evide arsenic poisoning violent abd nal nat pain vomiting mu muc cramps collapse feeble I If sufficient arsenic is taken d Question Question Question-Is Is hard drinking drinkin ter tel injurious to health Answer There Answer There is no good dence to indicate that hardter hard ter Is dangerous to health 1 tJ chicks develop larger Jarger b when given hard water J when given soft sort water I 1 No matter how the arsenic into the boll body it Jt Is eventually pa Into the Intestines from the j b although small smaIl amounts are arol e In the hair and it may be carried to the skin to duce duco pigmentation J JIe If Ie small doses closes o of arsenic are aret t tInto Into the body over long Jong perl period d time irritation o of the nerve end erid endis nc Is produced J I Years ago arsenic was foun contaminate beer made under unde conditions In England and t was an epidemic of such of the nerves among persistent drinkers I 1 I Vork Workers rs In arsenic may have bave skin of at the hands so severely that there will wUl be bc e ulcer clown down to the bone 1 MERCURIC SYMPTOMS I Mercury is used in many in tries particularly particular as an amal amaJi The symptoms of at mercury poi poj ing Int are known to almost ever eve 1 They include irritation of they thell els swelling of ot the gums Joo loose e of the teeth and a tremendous of saliva S I 1 Eventually there may be musj muse tremors so severe as to rend i r Individual helpless These sj j y toms tome are particularly workers In mercury mines wl-t wl not properly protected against fumes of mercury in the Workers with mercury ic ij pounds may also have the kidneys to the point of dey dove deve big ing ng BrIghts BrIght's disease J 1 3 |