The tobacco habit, its history and pathology : a study in birth-rates. Smokers compared with non-smokers / by Herbert H. Tidswell.

  • Tidswell, Herbert H. (Herbert Henry)
Date:
1912
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Credit: The tobacco habit, its history and pathology : a study in birth-rates. Smokers compared with non-smokers / by Herbert H. Tidswell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The action of Tobacco dust on workers in Tobacco factories , Hangers to pregnant women j Excessive MORTALITY AMONG CHILDREN OF THE WORKERS ; INTER- NATIONAL Congress against the abuse of Tobacco ; Observations by Drs. Drysdale, Kostral and Omar Hey , The influence of Tobacco in causing abortion AND ABSCESS OF BREAST | CHILDREN POISONED BY TOBACCO IN THE MOTHERS’ MILK ; NlCOTISM THE DANGER IN Turkey ; Alcoholism and Nicotism the danger in England. Dr. Hurteau, physician to the factory at Paris, stated that the workers were peculiarly liable to congestions. Kortial observed that women who worked in the tobacco factoiies 'weie very liable to abortions. Nicotine has been found in the amniotic fluid surrounding the foetus. It is also affirmed that the milk of women who work in the factories has a strong smell of tobacco. Buck also states that sexual development is retarded in young girls who enter tobacco factories, while the married women have very small families, average to each from three to four. Buck, author of “Hygiene and Public Health,” also stated “when persons begin to work in the tobacco lactones, they almost invariably suffer from headache nausea and vomiting ; they pass sleepless nights, and are troubled with diarrhoea. These symptoms are more common in females than males, and indicate poisoning with nicotine.” °
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