Meaning of Newcastle upon Tyne | Babel Free

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A large city and metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in northeastern England.

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“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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