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The same is the case with some poisons, and instances of lead-poisoning and arsenic-poisoning have been seen in children who have obtained the toxic substance in the mother's milk. There is one singular case on record in which a child has been poisoned from the milk of its mother after she had been bitten by a serpent.
Chronic lead-poisoning is liable to occur in those who handle lead in any form white-lead workers, paint manufacturers, plumbers, pottery workers, etc.
'This woman's a find, Vida whispered to the chairman. Ernestine shook her head. 'Why, she's making a first-rate speech! said Vida, astonished. 'There's nobody here who will care about it. 'Why do you say that? 'Oh, all she's saying is a commonplace to these people. Lead-poisoning was new, to them something they could take hold of. 'Well, I stick to it, you've got a good ally in this woman.
So it comes about that the most disastrous consequences are entailed upon the unborn infant in connection with syphilis, lead-poisoning, fevers, and the like in the intemperate mother." The foregoing was written as long ago as 1906, and various workers have helped to confirm it since that date.
We put up sandbags to stop the bullets, but no one had devised a method to stop those winged emissaries of death. Those who died from lead-poisoning were but a score to the hundreds who died of fly-poisoning. This is but a little of what holding on meant to that little force.
An experienced medical attendant is provided for them, and any premonitory symptoms of lead-poisoning are carefully treated. Their teapots and such things were set out on tables ready for their afternoon meal, when I saw their room; and it had a homely look.
She was English, and by nature, of a buxom figure and cheerful. Both in her poor dress and in her mother's there was an effort to keep up some appearance of neatness. She knew all about the sufferings of the unfortunate invalid, and all about the lead-poisoning, and how the symptoms came on, and how they grew, having often seen them.
'She was telling you just the kind of thing that you men ought to know, the kind of thing you get little chance of knowing about from men. Yet those wretched girls who die young of lead-poisoning, or live long enough to bring sickly babies into the world, those poor working women look to you working men for help. Are they wrong to look to you, or are they right?
So far, "greasy" luck had attended the Policy for she had taken sixteen more sperm whales, the last of which was killed in about 8° S. and 120° E., in the Flores Sea. But misfortune had come upon the ship in other respects, and Foster was in no small anxiety about his crew, nearly all of whom were ill from lead-poisoning.
At last, having told her story through the interruptions told it badly, brokenly, but to the end having given proofs that lead-poisoning among women was on the increase and read out from her poor crumpled, shaking notes, the statistics of infant and still-birth mortality, the unhappy new helper sat down. Miss Blunt leaned over, and whispered, 'That's all right! I was wrong.
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