James Craufurd Gregory, 19th century Scottish physicians, and the link between occupation as a coal miner and lung disease
By the mid-19th century about 200,000 miners were employed in a UK coal mining industry still growing with the advances of the Industrial Revolution. Coal miners were long known to suffer poor health but the link to inhaling dust in the mines had not been made. In 1813 George Pearson was the first t...
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Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
2017-09-01
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| Series: | The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh |
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| Online Access: | https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/sites/default/files/jrcpe_47_3_donaldson.pdf |