M.D. Late Professor of Materia Medica in Hering College, Chicago. Many patients cannot sleep in a newly painted room - they come down with lead colic or the acute affections of lead.
Many people are sensitive to lead.
This sensitivity is more marked than is observed in painters, who may use it for years with impunity, but all at once become susceptible to it. You wonder how much he gets, given off in the air. It is too attenuated to be examined by the microscope and yet enough to make him sick. We have no measure by which to find out how much he gets. The activities of the body, the functions of the organs, are slowed down in pace.