![]() Business influence, I hypothesis, explains the hostility or indifference on the part of government bureaucrats and medical specialists to the dialpainters' tripartite campaign for recognition of radium poisoning, compensation for its victims, and prevention of future cases. adventure involving the poisoning of the water supply of Docs building (chapter 10). The conclusion that radium was dangerous was resisted by radium corporation officials at every step. Radium Scramble (radio play) by Lester Dent Air Date: March 24. Eventually, radium in the luminous paint was accepted as the cause of the jaw infections, and of anemias, spontaneous bone fractures, and cancers. The dialpainters were joined in this effort by progressive women reformers of the Consumers' League. Exposure to higher levels of Radium-226 can cause cancer, anemia, cataracts, and fractured teeth. Alpha particles cannot travel through skin, beta particles can penetrate the skin, and gamma radiation can go through the entire human body. This paper traces the campaign to prove the occupational origins of the dialpainters' illnesses. Radium-226 emits alpha, beta or gamma radiation in the form of rays, particles and waves. The dial-painters, their families, friends, and physicians, soon suspected occupational poisoning, but it took them several years to persuade medical and government authorities that they were right. By the early 1920s, a small number of them began to suffer a variety of bewildering symptoms, including horrible, disfiguring infections of the bones of the jaw. Radium has been found at very low levels in soil, water, rocks, coal, plants, and food. It is formed when uranium and thorium (two other natural radioactive substances) decay (break down) in the environment. ![]() ![]() During World War I, young women were employed as "dialpainters": they painted numbers on watches and dials with luminous paint. Posted by Charlie Hintz Medical Oddities. Radium is a naturally-occurring silvery white radioactive metal that can exist in several forms called isotopes. ![]()
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