A certain indication of the humanitarian trend of modern times is the ever-increasing interest in the accidents, intoxications and diseases coincident with various trades. The ill effects that arsenic, lead and phosphorus have on workers started this line of investigation, and these intoxications have been so well studied that their clinical pictures are well known. Undoubtedly the most serious and permanent of trade diseases are those which affect the nervous system. Up to within recent years, only peripheral nervous system poisonings were recognized in workers in metallic and other poisons. Peripheral neuritis is the commonest form of occupational nervous system disorder, and it has for its commonest causative agents lead and arsenic. Other substances which produce neuritis in workers are copper, mercury, carbon bisulphid, anilin oil and the cyanids. In the central nervous system, on the other hand, conditions are different. Of all the substances mentioned, lead alone is known
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Louis Casamajor (1913) studied this question.