Word: martland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sued Westinghouse for $200,000, claiming that she had contracted radiation sickness in a war-job at Westinghouse's Bloomfield, NJ. plant. Her illness, marked by fibrous degeneration of both lungs and a slow wasting away, puzzled doctors. Last week Miss Burns died. Reported Medical Examiner Harrison S. Martland (who in the '20s discovered radium sickness among a group of women painting luminous watch dials): Miss Burns did not die of radiation sickness. Her illness was beryllium poisoning, caused by inhaling beryllium dust, used in the manufacture of fluorescent lamps...
Explained Newark, N.J.'s famed Medical Examiner Harrison Martland: Margaret, apparently healthy, had a disturbance of the pituitary gland, one of the main regulators of water balance. While her sister and brother who also played saloon were able to excrete large quantities of water normally, Margaret's lungs became waterlogged, her blood diluted, her heart paralyzed...