Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1879 — Lead Poisoning. [ARTICLE]

Lead Poisoning.

A medical journal, writing of lead poisoning, makes a statement which will interest parents and teachers: Those who work in lead mines, or in any way with lead, and absorb its fine d ust into their systems, except by the greatest care, sooner or later have what in general phraseology is called printer’s or painter’s palsy. The habit of children to bite and wet their lead pencils is followed by serious results, which are more likely to be traced to a close school-room aud hard study than to the lead pencils, slate pencils, and chalk they have munched on at short intervals five days out of seven.