TY  - JOUR
T1  - INdustrial overstrain
Y1  - 1909/08/21
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1909.02550080041009
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 637
EP  - 638
VL  - LIII
IS  - 8
N2  - While more attention is being continually given to industrial diseases, it is likely to be the feeling of the physician that this is a special field which concerns mostly the practitioner in the industrial centers. Those who have to do with painters or other lead workers are naturally interested in plumbism; other groups will find it to their advantage to study grinder's phthisis, etc. But there is a more general relation of labor that demands the attention of the medical profession and must interest every physician who has patients of the laboring class. While a trade may be free from poisons or other special tendencies to disease, it may contribute to the production of disease by the severe and exhausting character of the labor itself. Josephine Goldmark1 calls attention to the influence of fatigue and the need of a thorough investigation of its effects in predisposing the system for
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1909.02550080041009
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02550080041009
ER  -