Word: trumper
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Present at the hearing were famed Philadelphia Toxicologists Max Trumper and Samuel Tobias Gordy, authors of the first comprehensive medical report of carbon disulfide poisoning ever printed in the U. S. Throughout the country, they said, there are 19 rayon companies which use carbon disulfide. Some of them, like Du Pont at Wilmington, Del., take special pains to guard their employes from poisonous C52 fumes. American Viscose Co. cut down the hazard with a new ventilating system designed by Philip Drinker of Harvard. But hundreds of workers throughout the U. S. have been permanently disabled...
...free from pathological signs and symptoms." So strong a solvent is C52 that its fumes, inhaled, destroy the fatty sheaths of nerves, soften the fat matter of the brain. For some people, even a whiff is enough to produce a difficulty in walking. First symptom of poisoning, said Drs. Trumper & Gordy, is a kind of drunkenness, a "C52 jag." Then follow "a rich variety of neurologic disorders" including vertigo, vomiting, loss of muscle control, jumping and twitching, "spider webs" before the eyes. Victims are usually sleepy and tired, but in bed they are tortured by terrifying nightmares, wakened by violent...