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Lead poisoning, acute neuro-retinitis

John FA, a 29-year-old white-lead worker, was admitted on October 30, 1884, for very extensive paralysis involving the arms, shoulders, back, and legs. Case of English physician George Hare Philipson (1836-1918), professor of Medicine at Durham University. (Source: Oliver T. Lead poisoning in its acute and chronic forms: The Goulstonian Lectures, delivered in the Royal College of Physicians, March 1891. Edinburgh and London: Young J. Pentland, 1891. Public domain.)