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From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands.

~Alice Hamilton

Topics: Air Became Breathing Convinced Dust First Food Handling Hands Lead Look Men Must Poisoned Were

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No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding.

~Alice Hamilton

Topics: Doctor Exciting Hope Nowadays Rewarding Work Young

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There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes.

~Alice Hamilton

Topics: Air Based Clear Control Danger Dust Industry Intelligent Keeping Lead Principle Unless

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It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.

~Alice Hamilton

Topics: Between Comparable Conditions Contrast Control Demonstrating Easy England Figures Germany Ignorance Intelligent Lead Neglect Present States United United States Work

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It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

~Alice Hamilton

Topics: Also Aroused Diseases Experience Industrial Interest

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Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

~Alice Hamilton

Topics: Accident Caused Compensation Disease Had Illinois Legislation Occupation Providing Then

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When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.

~Alice Hamilton

Topics: About American Feminine Friends Gained Here Impression Magazines Medical Poor Sentimentality Silence Socialism Strange Subject Tainted Talked Textbooks

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It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.

~Alice Hamilton

Topics: Any Believe Chicago Conditions Could Europe Foreign Had Impossible Irish Italian Many Me Our Polish Quarters Section Seen Some Than Those Were Workshops Worse

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Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable.

~Alice Hamilton

Topics: Discovered Everything Most New Really Valuable

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Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.

~Alice Hamilton

Topics: Article Days Every Full Lead Made Medical Pleading Poisoning Problem Real Recognition Serious Speech Those Wrote

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: February 27th, 1869

Died: September 22nd, 1970

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