Show asbestos perl peril although asbestos has been used in industry at least since B D C only within recent years has it been recognized that asbestos dust can produce disease of the lungs asbestos is a mineral of a curious fibrous structure it Is used in making gas mantles furnace linings heat resisting mats and so on and Is largely handled bandied by women the inhalation of dust gives rise to symptoms in some of the workers after about five years they be bein begin in to get short of breath on exerts exertion lose weight and develop a dry coughi if the cases are seen early and prevented from being irritated by the dust much relief can be obtained by treatment |