| Description Of Item | Article cut from page 519 of the Medical Times & Gazette [originally in Union Medicale, No. 133] refers to M Delpech’s paper on the subject read to the Academy of Medicine. The article describes the effects of using sulphuret of carbon in the production of the balloons on the workforce. It refers to the effect on the digestive and nervous system in the form of ‘anorexia, vomiting, and colics, of hebetude, loss of memory, nervous irritability, sensual disturbances, cephalalgia, impotence, and paralysis… preceded by a stage of excitement, inordinate appetite preceding the anorexia, excessive sexual desire the anaphrodisia, hyperaesthesia and pain the paralysis’ etc. Sections have been underlined.
From the collection of Thomas Laycock.
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