The Lead Miners of the Northern Pennines: In the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

The Lead Miners of the Northern Pennines: In the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
ISBN-10
0719003806
ISBN-13
9780719003806
Category
Engeland
Pages
308
Language
English
Published
1970
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Author
Christopher John Hunt

Description

In fact the miners were infected mainly by silicosis , one of the class now known as the pneumoconioses , or dust ... The disease was commonly known by miners at the time as ' miner's complaint , and the men attributed it to all or any ...