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Document ID (ISN)19837
CIS number 72-1906
Year 1971
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Warembourg H.
Title The respiratory system and harmful agents
Original title Appareil respiratoire et nuisances [in French]
Bibliographic information Université du droit et de la santé, Lille, France, 1971. 61p. Illus. 298 ref.
Abstract A monograph dedicated to the memory of Professor C. Gernez-Rieux which reviews co-ordinated thematic research carried out at Lille University over the last decade. Individual sections are devoted to: fundamental respiratory-system reaction processes to harmful agents; the respiratory system and occupational harmful agents (coalworker's pneumoconiosis, non-silicotic occupational bronchopulmonary disease and industrial pollution); respiratory disease due to fungal-spore inhalation, and hypersensitive pulmonary disease; bronchopulmonary disease and chronic respiratory insufficiency due to harmful agents.
Descriptors (primary) atmospheric pollution; respiratory diseases
Descriptors (secondary) spores; extrinsic allergic alveolitis; coalworkers pneumoconiosis; respiratory insufficiency; bronchopulmonary diseases
Document type E - Books, reports, proceedings
Subject(s) Occupational pathology
Toxic and dangerous substances
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Diseases of the respiratory system (except for pneumoconiosis & similar)
Environmental pollution
Air pollution