Other Pneumoconioses: Aluminum

This text is not a research study. It is a textbook chapter titled "Other Pneumoconioses" by W. Keith C. Morgan, which reviewed published reports on lung disease from many non-asbestos dusts. The citation's title is the heading of a subsection within the chapter's first section, which is on aluminum. Topics covered included aluminum and bauxite (Shaver's disease), antimony, bakelite, barium (baritosis), beryllium (berylliosis), cerium, graphite and carbon, hematite and mixed dust, siderosis in welders and silver finishers, tin (stannosis), the claimed hair-spray disease "thesaurosis", titanium, and tungsten carbide (hard metal disease). Asbestos was not a subject; asbestosis was mentioned only once, as a point of comparison. In the chapter's account of an earlier survey of furnace workers at alumina abrasive plants, Shaver and Riddell found twenty-three men with X-ray abnormalities. The author's view was that many of the lung changes in Shaver's disease are caused by aluminum, that pure iron siderosis does not impair lung function, that stannosis is benign, that cobalt is likely the agent in hard metal disease, and that thesaurosis cannot yet be accepted as a disease.

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