caisson disease
| Another name for decompression sickness. |
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| We learn, for example, about the crippling caisson disease (the bends) that forced Washington Roebling to complete work on the Brooklyn Bridge using field glasses from a wheelchair in a nearby apartment, and about Barcelona's maverick architect Antoni Gaudi, who slept on the site of his final project. In building his magnificent bridge, Eads faced the common curse of many engineers in the mid-1860s: what was then called caisson disease and is now called "the bends," or decompression disease. |
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