Deadly Glow

Author: Ross Mullner
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0875532454
Category: Medical

Deadly Glow: The Radium Dial Worker Tragedy

Deadly Glow is an important story of a public health tragedy. Download Deadly Glow medical books for free.
It chronicles the lives of numerous young women who worked in radium application plants in the early 1900s painting numerals on instrument and watch dials. From their experience, the harmful effects of radium deposited in the body became known. The victims suffered from skin ulcerations, tumors, and other severe medical symptoms. Physicians were baffled and misdiagnosed their conditions as heart disease and even syphilis. Solving the intriguing mystery of the workers' disabling, yet unknown, disease would be a complex and difficult task requiring brilliant detective work of several investigators. In time, this tragedy would be recognized as the worlds' first mass experience with injury Get Deadly Glow our bestseller medical books.

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It chronicles the lives of numerous young women who worked in radium application plants in the early 1900s painting numerals on instrument and watch dials. From their experience, the harmful effects of radium deposited in the body became known. The victims suffered from skin ulcerations, tumors, and other severe medical symptoms. Physicians were baffled and misdiagnosed their conditions as heart disease and even syphilis In time, this tragedy would be recognized as the worlds' first mass experience with injury

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