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Afterdamp
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The term refers to
the gaseous mixture in mines after an explosion of gas. The
chief products of a firedamp explosion are carbon dioxide,
watery vapor, nitrogen and CO. When a large body of gas has been
exploded and the air of the mine does not furnish sufficient
oxygen for the complete combustion of firedamp, a large amount
of carbon monoxide may be present in the afterdamp. [Kober1916]
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Ankylostomiasis
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Miners' Anemia
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Anthracosis
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A chronic lung
disease, common among coal miners, due to the inhalation of coal
dust; -- called also (collier's lung} and {miner's phthisis}.
[Webster1913].
Fibroid
phthisis caused by the inhalation of coal dust. [Kober1916]
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Black Consumption
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Anthracosis, Black Lung Disease
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Black Lung
/Disease
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Anthracosis.
[Appleton1904].
A chronic occupational lung disease contracted by the prolonged
breathing of coal mine dust. The silica and carbon in the coal dust
cause black lung disease. About one of every 20 miners studied in
the US has X-ray evidence of black lung disease, a form of pneumoconiosis.
In its early stages, called simple pneumoconiosis, the disease does
not prevent the miner from working or carrying on most normal activities.
In some miners, the disease never becomes more severe. In other
miners, the disease progresses from simple to complicated pneumoconiosis,
a condition also called progressive massive fibrosis. Pneumoconiosis
is not reversible. There is no specific treatment. Black lung disease
has gone by many names, including anthracosis, black lung, black
spittle, coal worker's pneumoconiosis, miner's asthma, and silicosis.
[Medicinenet].
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Black Phthisis
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Anthracosis,
Miner's Asthma
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Black Spittle
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Anthracosis, Black Lung Disease
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Blackdamp
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A noncombustible gas that consists of a mixture of carbon dioxide
and nitrogen, found in mines after fires or explosions and incapable
of supporting life. [Heritage]
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Carbonic
Acid |
This gas, which neither supports
respiration nor combustion, is not often used in medicine. It is
the main agent in effervescent draughts, fermenting poultices,
etc. It is often found occupying the lower parts of mines - when
it is called the choke damp - caverns, tombs, wells, brewers'
vats, etc., and not unfrequently has been the cause of death.
[Dunglison1868] |
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Choke Damp |
A name applied by miners to all
irrespirable gases, but more especially to carbonic acid gas.
[Thomas1875] |
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Coal Lung
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Coal Miner's Phthisis, Anthracosis
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Coal Miner's
Lung
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Anthracosis, Black Lung Disease
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Coal Miner's
Phthisis
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Anthracosis
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Coal Worker's Pneumoconiosis
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Anthracosis, Black Lung Disease
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Collier's Asthma
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A well-defined medical entity resulting from
the depositions of coal mine dust in the lung and from the reaction
to the deposited dust resulting in coal macules, coal nodules, and
progressive massive fibrosis. [EuropeanUnion].
Collier: One engaged in the business of
digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing
in coal. [Webster1913].
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Collier's Lung
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Anthracosis, Black Lung Disease
Collier: One engaged in the business of
digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing
in coal. [Webster1913].
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Damp |
The permanently elastic fluids which are
extricated in mines. These are choke-damp, or carbolic acid; and
fire-damp, consisting almost solely of light carburated
hydrogen, exploding on contact with a light. [Hoblyn1855]
A term applied to noxious gases found in
mines. [Thomas1875] |
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Egyptian Chlorosis
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Miners' Anemia
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Fire Damp |
A name given by miners to the explosive
gas, consisting chiefly of light carbureted hydrogen, found in
mines. [Thomas1875] The constituents of
firedamp are methane and air. It is of special importance as
marsh gas, in the proportion of 1 to 13 of air, forms an
explosive mixture, which reaches its maximum violence when the
proportion of carburated hydrogen is 1 to 9 1/2. [Kober1916] |
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Labrador Lung |
A type of mixed dust pneumoconiosis occurring in iron miners in
western Labrador, caused by a mixture of particles of iron,
silica, and some anthophyllite (a variety of amphibole
asbestos). [Dorland] |
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Marsh Gas
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Also known as light
carburated hydrogen and methane, is the product of decomposition
of carbonous matter, which has taken place with the exclusion of
air and in the presence of water. It is one of the
characteristic occluded gases of coal mines. [Kober1916] |
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Mesothelioma
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A malignant tumor of
the covering of the lung or the lining of the pleural and
abdominal cavities, often associated with exposure to asbestos.
[RandomHouse]
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Miner’s Anemia
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The disease, resulting from the presence of the intestinal parasite
Ankylostoma duodenale, observed in miners and workers in tunnels.
[Appleton1904]
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Miner's Asthma
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Pneumoconiosis. A condition met with in miners, being a form of
severe bronchitic disease, in consequence of the peculiar atmosphere
breathed by them. [Dunglison1874].
Anthracosis.
[Appleton1904].
The term miner's
asthma was first used in 1822. The cause of the spitting, coughing,
and breathlessness in coal miners was unknown, so doctors used the
word asthma to identify the condition. Later, silicosis became known
as the disease producing breathlessness in miners who had worked
where silica was thought to be in the coal mine dust. [Medicinenet].
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Miner's Consumption
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Anthracosis, Pneumoconiosis
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Miner's Elbow
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An enlargement of a bursa over the olecranon, occurring in such
as habitually lean upon it; often seen in those who work on the
side in low-roofed mines. [Dunglison1874]
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Miner's Lung
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Coal workers'
pneumoconiosis. [Dorland].
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Miner’s Nystagmus
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Nystagmus in coal mines. [NomDis1961]
Nystagmus: A rapid, involuntary,
oscillatory motion of the eyeball.
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Miner's Phthisis
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Anthracosis, Pneumoconiosis
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Pneumoconiosis / Pneumonoconiosis / Pneumonokoniosis
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A disease arising from the
inhalation of dust, as of coal, iron, etc. See Anthracosis, Siderosis.
[Dunglison1874]
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Rand Miner’s Phthisis
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Silicosis. [NomDis1961]
The Rand:
a rocky gold-bearing ridge in South Africa, about thirty miles long,
on which Johannesburg is situated; also, the gold-mining district
including this ridge.
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Silicosis
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Fibroid phthisis
caused by the inhalation of silicous particles. [Kober1916].
Pneumoconiosis
characterized by massive fibrosis of the lungs resulting in
shortness of breath and caused by prolonged inhalation of silica
dusts. [Webster].
Fact sheet from WHO
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Stinkdamp
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Sulphureted hydrogen,
may be found occasionally as an occluded gas in coal seams, and
in mines is usually the product of decomposition of pyrites in
the presence of moisture. It is a blood poison, as it takes away
the oxyhemoglobin, and is generally recognized by miners as
"stinkdamp" on account of the odor resembling that of rotten
eggs.
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Mining Accidents |
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Explosion of Powder
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Example from an 1889
Death Record
from Michigan
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Fall in Mine
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Example from an 1882
Death Record
from Michigan
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Fall of Coal |
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Example from a 1907
Death Record
from West Virginia
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Injury in two Lick Mine |
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Example from a 1907
Death Record
from West Virginia
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Killed by Explosion of Dynamite |
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Example from an 1889
Death Record
from Michigan
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Killed in Mine |
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Example from a 1907
Death Record
from West Virginia
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Killed in Mine by Blasting |
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Example from an 1889
Death Record
from Michigan
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Killed in Mine Crushed by Skip |
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Example from an 1889
Death Record
from Michigan
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Killed in Mine Disaster |
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Example from a 1907
Death Record
from West Virginia
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Mine Accident |
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Example from a 1907
Death Record
from West Virginia
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Powder Explosion |
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Example from a 1907
Death Record
from West Virginia
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