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Phossy jaw (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 9 months ago by dotslashme@infosec.pub to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Radium Girls and Radium Jaw are linked in 'See Also', because when the first cases of radium-related necrosis were appearing in women working with radium watch dials, doctors spent years searching for a source of phosphorus at the factories. The symptoms were very similar and the mechanism of toxicity of radium was not yet understood.