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This new version of a widely-read and highly-acclaimed ebook broadens the scope of its predecessors from a heavy concentrate on business chemical compounds as toxicants to incorporate medicinal drugs, foodstuff ingredients, cosmetics and different kinds of compounds that folks are uncovered to day-by-day. additionally new to the 3rd version are more moderen issues-of-the-day resembling nanoparticulate toxicants, moment hand smoke, foodstuff illness, lead in toys, and others. As such, the publication presents the fundamentals of toxicology in easy-to-understand language in addition to a fuller realizing of the day-by-day insults to which bodies are subjected.
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Ramazzini was born in Italy in 1633 and lived to the age of 81, active in his profession until the end. , diseases that attack many people in a region at the same time). His book, De Morbis Artificum Diatriba (Diseases of Workers), listed the illnesses and diseases occurring in many occupations. He was also a socially oriented physician who noted the wretched conditions of workers in the trades. He felt that medicine should strive to improve the quality of life of the common people. Ramazzini was once told by a sewer worker that a man who had never done such work could not possibly understand what it was like.
He preferred the company of laborers, tradespeople, Gypsies, and others unacceptable to genteel folk. He died at the age of 48 as a result of wounds suffered in a tavern brawl in Salzburg. In his short lifetime he set the stage for a revolution in medical practice by teaching his student physicians to use chemical medications rather than the more popular magic potions. Paracelsus set forth one of the basic tenets of modern toxicology when he wrote what is translated as: What is it that is not poison?
Indd 20 12/16/2010 7:54:27 PM 21 HARMFUL PROPER TIES OF CHEMICALS RADIOACTIVE 7 (a) FIGURE 2-1 (b) (a) Example HazMat sign; (b) HazMat sign for radioactive material. The chlorofluoro hydrocarbon propellants used in most aerosol cans until recently are not flammable, but their replacements may be. Concern about the effects of chlorofluoro hydrocarbons on the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere has led to their replacement with other gases. The caution statement on the product label should tell if the propellant is flammable.