Alice Hamilton Quotes
- From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned…
- Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable.
- When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that…
- It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work…
- Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.
- Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and…
- There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from…
- It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.
- It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in…
- When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier,…
- No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding.