Lead poisoning as possible cause of deaths at the Swedish House at Kapp Thordsen, Spitsbergen, winter 1872-3

Objective To investigate cause of death in 17 sealers who died in the Swedish house in Kapp Thordsen, Spitsbergen, during the winter of 1872-3. Design Analysis of skeletal samples from one sealer’s grave. Setting Field trip to Spitsbergen to exhume skeletal remains. Subjects One of 17 sailors who di...

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Autores principales: Aasebø, Ulf, Kjær, Kjell G
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2789173/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19965937
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.b5038
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Kjær, Kjell G
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description Objective To investigate cause of death in 17 sealers who died in the Swedish house in Kapp Thordsen, Spitsbergen, during the winter of 1872-3. Design Analysis of skeletal samples from one sealer’s grave. Setting Field trip to Spitsbergen to exhume skeletal remains. Subjects One of 17 sailors who died in 1872-3. Results No objective signs of scurvy were found. The concentration of lead in the bone samples was 102.05 µg/g. Conclusions The high concentrations of lead indicate that this man died from lead poisoning, probably from food tins. The absence of macroscopic signs of scurvy supports this theory.
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spelling pubmed-27891732010-01-14 Lead poisoning as possible cause of deaths at the Swedish House at Kapp Thordsen, Spitsbergen, winter 1872-3 Aasebø, Ulf Kjær, Kjell G BMJ Research Objective To investigate cause of death in 17 sealers who died in the Swedish house in Kapp Thordsen, Spitsbergen, during the winter of 1872-3. Design Analysis of skeletal samples from one sealer’s grave. Setting Field trip to Spitsbergen to exhume skeletal remains. Subjects One of 17 sailors who died in 1872-3. Results No objective signs of scurvy were found. The concentration of lead in the bone samples was 102.05 µg/g. Conclusions The high concentrations of lead indicate that this man died from lead poisoning, probably from food tins. The absence of macroscopic signs of scurvy supports this theory. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. 2009-12-04 /pmc/articles/PMC2789173/ /pubmed/19965937 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.b5038 Text en © Aasebø et al 2009 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non commercial and is otherwise in compliance with the license. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ and http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/legalcode.
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Aasebø, Ulf
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Lead poisoning as possible cause of deaths at the Swedish House at Kapp Thordsen, Spitsbergen, winter 1872-3
title Lead poisoning as possible cause of deaths at the Swedish House at Kapp Thordsen, Spitsbergen, winter 1872-3
title_full Lead poisoning as possible cause of deaths at the Swedish House at Kapp Thordsen, Spitsbergen, winter 1872-3
title_fullStr Lead poisoning as possible cause of deaths at the Swedish House at Kapp Thordsen, Spitsbergen, winter 1872-3
title_full_unstemmed Lead poisoning as possible cause of deaths at the Swedish House at Kapp Thordsen, Spitsbergen, winter 1872-3
title_short Lead poisoning as possible cause of deaths at the Swedish House at Kapp Thordsen, Spitsbergen, winter 1872-3
title_sort lead poisoning as possible cause of deaths at the swedish house at kapp thordsen, spitsbergen, winter 1872-3
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2789173/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19965937
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.b5038
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