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    Radium jaw, or radium necrosis, is a historic occupational disease brought on by the ingestion and subsequent absorption of radium into the bones of radium...
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    gotten sick from radium in his hands, not the jaw, but the circumstances of his death helped the Radium Girls in court. The Radium Dial Company was established...
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    Radium dials are watch, clock and other instrument dials painted with luminous paint containing radium-226 to produce radioluminescence. Radium dials...
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    use of oral bisphosphonates. Industrial injury Osteonecrosis of the jaw Radium jaw Hughes, J. P; Baron, R; Buckland, D. H; Cooke, M. A; Craig, J. D; Duffield...
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  • Radium girl may refer to: The Radium Girls, female workers who painted glowing radium watch dials in the 1920s and suffered from radium jaw and death...
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  • dials powered by radium radioactivity until 1978. Radium Girls Radium jaw Radioluminescence Moore, Kate (2017) [2016]. "6". The Radium Girls. Naperville...
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  • medical literature of the term “radium jaw” that arose from a case he treated that is described in the book The Radium Girls (2016). Theodor Blum was born...
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  • brought about while licking the brushes, resulted in a condition called radium jaw (radium necrosis), a painful swelling and porosity of the upper and lower...
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    Undark (category Radium)
    radium contained within the product. The product was the direct cause of radium jaw in the dial painters. Undark was also available as a kit for general consumer...
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    anemia, bone fractures, sarcomas, and necrosis of the jaw, a condition now known as radium jaw. Many of these women died young. The documentary interviews...
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    November 21, 2009. Winslow, Ron (August 1, 1990). "The Radium Water Worked Fine until His Jaw Came Off" (PDF). Wall Street Journal. p. A1. Archived from...
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  • Phossy jaw among the London matchgirls Radiation sickness among some persons who had been working in the nuclear industry Radium jaw among the Radium Girls...
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    of radium in the watch industry, where it was used for luminous dials. He published an article on the clinical picture of the so-called radium jaw. He...
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  • fever Mule spinners' cancer Noise-induced hearing loss Phossy jaw Pneumoconiosis Radium jaw Repetitive strain injury Silicosis Silo-filler's disease Sports...
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    Radithor (category Radium)
    1990) was titled "The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off". Radium ore Revigator Radioactive quackery "Medicine: Radium Drinks". Time. Apr 11...
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    Grace Fryer (category Radium)
    they worked. Within two years of leaving U.S. Radium, Fryer began losing her teeth. Soon afterwards, her jaw became painful and her eyes clouded. A doctor...
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  • fever Mule spinners' cancer Noise-induced hearing loss Phossy jaw Pneumoconiosis Radium jaw Repetitive strain injury Silicosis Silo-filler's disease Sports...
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  • fever Mule spinners' cancer Noise-induced hearing loss Phossy jaw Pneumoconiosis Radium jaw Repetitive strain injury Silicosis Silo-filler's disease Sports...
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    Most died trying to open exits that had been locked. Radium dial painter cancers,"phossy jaw", mercury and lead poisonings, silicosis, and other pneumoconioses...
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  • William J. A. Bailey (category Radium)
    night will be held ... Winslow, Rob (August 1, 1990). "The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off" (PDF). The Wall Street Journal. Archived from...
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    fever Mule spinners' cancer Noise-induced hearing loss Phossy jaw Pneumoconiosis Radium jaw Repetitive strain injury Silicosis Silo-filler's disease Sports...
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  • assume that it is just from the radium powder that is used to paint the faces. The ladies then develop ailments, including jaw infections and bone pain. Several...
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  • pneumoconiosis Golfer's elbow Jogger's nipple List of hoaxes Nintendo thumb Radium jaw Surfer's ear Tennis elbow Murphy, John M. (11 May 1974). "Letter: Cello...
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  • fever Mule spinners' cancer Noise-induced hearing loss Phossy jaw Pneumoconiosis Radium jaw Repetitive strain injury Silicosis Silo-filler's disease Sports...
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  • fever Mule spinners' cancer Noise-induced hearing loss Phossy jaw Pneumoconiosis Radium jaw Repetitive strain injury Silicosis Silo-filler's disease Sports...
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  • fever Mule spinners' cancer Noise-induced hearing loss Phossy jaw Pneumoconiosis Radium jaw Repetitive strain injury Silicosis Silo-filler's disease Sports...
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    workers, and 315 unmeasured male workers. The most common health issue was "radium jaw" (bone necrosis), anemia, epidermoid carcinomas, and sarcomas. The National...
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  • fever Mule spinners' cancer Noise-induced hearing loss Phossy jaw Pneumoconiosis Radium jaw Repetitive strain injury Silicosis Silo-filler's disease Sports...
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  • fever Mule spinners' cancer Noise-induced hearing loss Phossy jaw Pneumoconiosis Radium jaw Repetitive strain injury Silicosis Silo-filler's disease Sports...
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    popular radium water Radithor, developed by the medical con artist William J. A. Bailey. Byers contracted fatal radium poisoning and had to have his jaw removed...
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