The Human Nervous System 1958

Disorders of the nervous system that result from toxic exposures encountered in the workplace have been noted throughout recorded history. More than 750 chemicals have been found to be potentially neurotoxic. In the first century A.D., Pliny discovered palsy in workers exposed to lead dust. Delpech observed bizarre psychoses among French workers who manufactured rubber products in small cottage industries during the 1800s and recognized that they were caused by carbon disulfide. During the 1960s and early 1970s, peripheral neuropathy was observed in Japanese workers exposed to acrylamide despite prior identification of its neurotoxicity in animals. Since 1970, at least three significant outbreaks of neurotoxicity have occurred as a result of exposure to
Chemicals. Despite improved industrial hygiene practices and the development of animal models for assessing some neurotoxic diseases, it is obvious that workers continue to serve as the "sentinel" indicator of neurotoxic disorders. For more, go to the NIOSH report: A Proposed National Strategy For the Prevention of Neurotoxic Disorders http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/89-134/pdfs/89-134.pdf . This is clipped from the 1958 film, Gateways to the Mind, made for AT&T by the Warner Brothers Studio. The entire film is available at the Internet Archives.

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[Cryuss90]

i always wondered how we could lose our sense of touch, yet if we did, we would lose our muscular movement if i'm correct.

[medicappharmacy]

Interesting!

[IAINMAN96]

Nice. Not to bad for that time. :)