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lead poisoning

In medicine, toxic condition due to the ingestion of lead. Symptoms include loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, colic, anaemia, and nerve damage. It is treated by the removal of the source of lead and by chelating agents (see chelate) to remove the lead from the body. Most cases today are chronic and occur in workers at smelters or scrap yards, but lead poisoning used to occur more commonly because of the use of domestic lead-based paints and lead water pipes.
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Peripheral nervous system findings in plumbism may include wrist and foot drop especially in adults.
The Clinical Spectrum of Lead Toxicity. (Abstracts) by Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science
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Brush with Death: A Social history of lead poisoning. (Reviews) by Carson, Carolyn Leonard / Journal of Social History
Because steel is so much lighter than lead (about 30 percent lighter for a pellet of equal diameter), it didn't have the same killing power as lead, and many hunters said it wounded far more birds than lead killed through plumbism, the eating of spent shot.
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