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The AFU and Urban Legend Archive Medical radium poisoning ref
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3 May 1994
For documentation on the radium poisoning story, see the following references supplied by Stan Schwarz.
Terry Chan
From SCHWARZ_SM@DIR.TEXAS.GOV Tue May 3 14:06:45 1994
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 09:45:07 -0600 (CST)
From: Only 254 days until Christmas! <SCHWARZ_SM@DIR.TEXAS.GOV>
To: twcaps@dante.lbl.gov
Subject: I found a citation - was Re: faq stuff
[RE "Tb. Women workers in old watch factories got poisoning by
licking brushes used for applying radium compound to
watch faces." ]
Well, I looked on my bookshelf last night and came up with a citation. I have a book titled _Multiple Exposures_ _Chronicles of the Radiation Age_ by Catherine Caufield. 1989, Harper & Row. ISBN 0-06-015900-6
There is a chapter titled "The Dial Painters" which tells the story. Also, for more information, note 30 in this chapter states:
"This account of the radium dial painters and those who helped solve the mystery of their deaths is taken from a number of sources, including:
Cloutier, Roger, 'Florence Kelley and the Radium Dial Painters', Health Physics Journal Vol 39, No. 6 (1980), pp. 711-717.
Evans, Robley, 'Radium and Man', Health Physics, 27, pp. 497-510 (1974).
Martland, Harrison S., 'Occupational Poisoning in Manufacture of Luminous Watch Dials', Journal of American Medical Association (1929) Vol 92, No. 6 pp. 466-473.
Lang, Daniel, _From Hiroshima to the Moon_, Simon and Schuster, New York (1959).
Goldmark, Josephine Clara, _Impatient Crusader_, University of Illinois Press, Urbana (1953), pp. 189-204."
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