Classical syndromes in occupational medicine: Phosphorus necrosis—A classical occupational disease
作者:
Jean Spencer Felton,
期刊:
American Journal of Industrial Medicine
(WILEY Available online 1982)
卷期:
Volume 3,
issue 1
页码: 77-120
ISSN:0271-3586
年代: 1982
DOI:10.1002/ajim.4700030111
出版商: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
关键词: phosphorus;necrosis of mandible;match manufacturing;phosphorus matches;fireworks manufacturing;phosphorus fireworks;Esch Act;John B. Andrews, PhD
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractA disease nearly extinct in occupational health history is phosphorus necrosis, previously seen in near‐epidemic proportions among workers making phosphorus‐containing matches. Similar destructive lesions were encountered early in the 20th century among personnel fabricating fireworks. Through the diligent efforts of an economist and a supportive congressman, legislation was passed in 1912 placing a tax on phosphorus matches, and because of the fiscal burden resulting, a nontoxic substitute for elemental phosphorus was adopted by all manufacturers. Today phosphorus necrosis is extremely rare, but the former presence of the disease points up both apathy and courage in the identification and eradication of a remarkably disfiguring work‐caused di
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