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Document ID (ISN)21638
CIS number 74-1656
Year 1974
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Raix A.
Title Psychological aspects of industrial poisoning due to chemical substances - Aetiology - Clinical symptoms and pathogenic factors
Original title Manifestations psychiques dans les intoxications chimiques d'origine industrielle - Etiologie - Signes cliniques et éléments pathogéniques. [in French]
Bibliographic information Université de Paris VI, Faculté de médecine Broussais - Hôtel-Dieu, Paris, France, 1974. 105p. 74 ref.
Abstract This MD thesis reviews occupational poisoning due to chemical substances and deals with neuropsychic effects in particular. Agents studied include: (1) minerals and mineral compounds (lead, mercury, manganese, tin and halogens); (2) solvents and fuels (halogenated derivatives of aliphatic hydrocarbons, benzene and homologues, alcohols, carbon disulfide and boranes); (3) organophosphorus and organochlorine insecticides; (4) medicaments (nitroglycerine, psychotropic drugs, hormones); (5) carbon monoxide.
Descriptors (primary) poisoning; neuropsychic effects; toxic substances; psychosomatic disorders
Descriptors (secondary) tranquillizers; trinitroglycerine; tin; iodine; manganese; France; 1,1,1-trichloroethane; diborane; pentaborane; decaborane; carbon monoxide; trichloroethylene; tetrachloroethylene; mercury; methyl bromide; carbon disulfide; methanol; bromine; benzene; toluene; lead; cumene; ethanol; organophosphorus compounds; hormones; ethylene glycol; aetiology; pesticides; symptoms; xylene; thesis; chloromethane; pathogenesis; amyl alcohol
Document type E - Books, reports, proceedings
Subject(s) Toxic and dangerous substances
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Diseases of the nervous system
Mental health