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MARTLAND, Harrison Stanford (1883 – 1954)

MARTLAND, Harrison Stanford (1883 – 1954)

1883 – 1954

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Hudconja · Own work · CC BY-SA 3.0

1925 CE

#7785

Some unrecognized dangers in the use and handling of radioactive substances.

From autopsies on several young women who had painted radium dials, and ingested large cumulative doses by licking their brushes, Martland, medical examiner of Essex County, New Jersey, provided evidence that ingestio…