Excerpt from Women in the Lead Industries If, after an attack of acute lead colic, the man goes into more health ful work he will probably recover completely from the effects of the lead, though there are authorities who insist that even one attack leaves permanent, even if slight, changes in the blood vessels and in the liver. But if the man goes back to the same work, he develops the chronic form of lead poisoning, with perhaps recurrent attacks of colic. Chronic lead poisoning is essentially a disease of the blood vessels. Leading to degeneration of the organs, the liver, kidneys, and heart especially, to atrophy of the digestive glands, and to prema ture old age.

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