Meaning of Burtonian | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of or relating to Robert Burton (1577–1640), English scholar and writer.
2. Of or relating to Henry Burton (1799–1849), British physician and chemist.
3. Of or relating to Tim Burton (born 1958), American filmmaker known for his darkly whimsical art and films.

Examples

“Similar statements were made in Britain, where the growing white lead⟳ industry in Newcastle-upon-Tyne caused waves of illness and even death among women workers: Dr Charles T. Thackrah had early on denounced the serious intoxications linked to the use⟳ of lead⟳ in industry and described the main symptoms allowing the disease to be diagnosed and patients to be distanced from the source of poisoning (1831), as had Henry Burton, who stated that a greyish coloration of the gums was an unmistakable symptom of lead⟳ poisoning, then known as the "Burtonian line" (1840).”

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