Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mad_hatter_disease> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 50 of
50
with 100 items per page.
- Mad_hatter_disease abstract "Mad hatter disease, or mad hatter syndrome, is a commonly used name for occupational chronic mercury poisoning among hatmakers whose felting work involved prolonged exposure to mercury vapours. The neurotoxic effects included tremor and the pathological shyness and irritability characteristic of erethism.Use of inorganic mercury in the form of mercuric nitrate to treat the fur of small animals for the manufacture of felt hats seems to have begun in 17th-century France and from there spread to England by the end of the century with the Huguenots. By the Victorian era the hatters' condition had become proverbial, as reflected in popular expressions like "mad as a hatter" and the hatters' shakes. Similar phenomena had been described in St Petersburg, Russia, in 1829. In France, the National Academy of Medicine described the health hazards in 1869, and in 1898 a law was passed to protect hatmakers from the risks of mercury exposure. In Britain, mercury poisoning among hatters had become a rarity by the turn of the 20th century. In the United States, where the occupational illness was thoroughly described in New Jersey in 1860, the practice continued until 1941; mercury poisoning in the hatmaking industries of Danbury, Connecticut gave rise to the expression the Danbury shakes. Hatmakers in Tuscany, Italy, were also affected and exposed workers received financial compensation.Although Lewis Carroll's iconic Mad Hatter character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has often been linked to the occupational hazards of hatmaking, it is thought that the character was directly inspired by the eccentric furniture dealer Theophilus Carter.".
- Mad_hatter_disease diseasesdb "8057".
- Mad_hatter_disease emedicineSubject "emerg".
- Mad_hatter_disease emedicineTopic "813".
- Mad_hatter_disease icd10 "T56.1".
- Mad_hatter_disease icd9 "985.0".
- Mad_hatter_disease medlineplus "002476".
- Mad_hatter_disease meshId "D020262".
- Mad_hatter_disease thumbnail Fur_industry-_hat-making,_Canadian_voyageurs._(_1858-_).jpg?width=300.
- Mad_hatter_disease wikiPageExternalLink 24.
- Mad_hatter_disease wikiPageExternalLink viewArticle.do?id=79706.
- Mad_hatter_disease wikiPageID "2087055".
- Mad_hatter_disease wikiPageRevisionID "605225240".
- Mad_hatter_disease align "right".
- Mad_hatter_disease bgcolor "#FFFFF0".
- Mad_hatter_disease diseasesdb "8057".
- Mad_hatter_disease emedicinesubj "emerg".
- Mad_hatter_disease emedicinetopic "813".
- Mad_hatter_disease hasPhotoCollection Mad_hatter_disease.
- Mad_hatter_disease icd "985".
- Mad_hatter_disease icd "T56.1".
- Mad_hatter_disease medlineplus "2476".
- Mad_hatter_disease meshid "D020262".
- Mad_hatter_disease name "Mercury poisoning, chronic".
- Mad_hatter_disease quote "The man affected is easily upset and embarrassed, loses all joy in life and lives in constant fear of being dismissed from his job. He has a sense of timidity and may lose self control before visitors. Thus, if one stops to watch such a man in a factory, he will sometimes throw down his tools and turn in anger on the intruder, saying he cannot work if watched. Occasionally a man is obliged to give up work because he can no longer take orders without losing his temper or, if he is a foreman, because he has no patience with men under him. Drowsiness, depression, loss of memory and insomnia may occur, but hallucinations, delusions and mania are rare.".
- Mad_hatter_disease quote "The most characteristic symptom, though it is seldom the first to appear, is mercurial tremor. It is neither as fine nor as regular as that of hyperthyroidism. It may be interrupted every few minutes by coarse jerky movements. It usually begins in the fingers, but the eyelids, lips and tongue are affected early. As it progresses it passes to the arms and legs, so that it becomes very difficult for a man to walk about the workshop, and he may have to be guided to his bench. At this stage the condition is so obvious that it is known to the layman as "hatter's shakes."".
- Mad_hatter_disease quote "The surprise is that men can be induced to work at all in such death producing enclosures. It is hard to believe that men of ordinary intelligence could be so indifferent to the ordinary laws of health... It does not seem to have occurred to them that all the efforts to keep up wages... [are] largely offset by the impairment of their health, due to neglect of proper hygienic regulations of their workshops... And when the fact of the workmen in the sizing room, who stand in water, was mentioned, and the simple and inexpensive means by which it could be largely avoided was spoken of, the reply was that it would cost money and hat manufacturers did not care to expend money for such purposes, if they could avoid it.".
- Mad_hatter_disease quoted "true".
- Mad_hatter_disease salign "right".
- Mad_hatter_disease source "Bishop, Annual Report of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor and Industries of New Jersey".
- Mad_hatter_disease source "Buckell et al, Chronic Mercury Poisoning".
- Mad_hatter_disease width "530".
- Mad_hatter_disease subject Category:History_of_mental_health_in_the_United_Kingdom.
- Mad_hatter_disease subject Category:Industrial_hygiene.
- Mad_hatter_disease subject Category:Mercury_poisoning.
- Mad_hatter_disease subject Category:Neurological_disorders.
- Mad_hatter_disease subject Category:Occupational_diseases.
- Mad_hatter_disease type Disease.
- Mad_hatter_disease type Situation.
- Mad_hatter_disease comment "Mad hatter disease, or mad hatter syndrome, is a commonly used name for occupational chronic mercury poisoning among hatmakers whose felting work involved prolonged exposure to mercury vapours.".
- Mad_hatter_disease label "Hutmachersyndrom".
- Mad_hatter_disease label "Mad hatter disease".
- Mad_hatter_disease sameAs Hutmachersyndrom.
- Mad_hatter_disease sameAs m.02p5nqn.
- Mad_hatter_disease sameAs Q1639246.
- Mad_hatter_disease sameAs Q1639246.
- Mad_hatter_disease wasDerivedFrom Mad_hatter_disease?oldid=605225240.
- Mad_hatter_disease depiction Fur_industry-_hat-making,_Canadian_voyageurs._(_1858-_).jpg.
- Mad_hatter_disease isPrimaryTopicOf Mad_hatter_disease.
- Mad_hatter_disease name "Mercury poisoning, chronic (neurological symptomatology)".