CHAPTER XIX

LEAD AND ITS COMPOUNDS. By THOMAS OLIVER, M.D., F.R.C.P., 282

Lead Mining and the Health and Surroundings of the Miner--Lead-smelting--Red Lead, Lead Oxide, Litharge, Massicot, Minium--White Lead: Carbonate of Lead (Céruse, _Fr._)--Lead Poisoning--Treatment: Preventive and Curative--Chromate of Lead: Dye Works--Calico Printing--Enamelling of Iron Plates and Hollow Ware--Electric Accumulator Works and Lead Poisoning--Motor Cars--Electric Tramways--Soldering, Typefounding, Printing, Typesetting, Linotyping--Precautions--Plumbing--House Painting--Coach Painting--Glass Polishing--File-cutting--Use of Lead in Potteries--Chromo-lithographic Works and Transfer-making--Tile-making and Manufacture of Porcelain Stoves--Washing of Lead-workers’ and Painters’ Clothes--Lead Foil Manufacture--Shoe-finishing and Staining by Lead Compounds--Lucifer Matches containing Lead--Buffing of Brass Cocks and Plumbism.