phossy

So the factory workers who worked at those matchstick factories would actually get something known as phossy (ph) jaw, that's what they called it.

CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2005 2005

Long-term exposure to lesser concentrations over several months or years may lead to a condition called "phossy jaw", where mouth wounds are caused that fail to heal and the jawbone eventually breaks down.

Archive 2005-11-20 2005

Long-term exposure to lesser concentrations over several months or years may lead to a condition called "phossy jaw", where mouth wounds are caused that fail to heal and the jawbone eventually breaks down.

A message from my inner Frenchman 2005

Long-term exposure to lesser concentrations over several months or years may lead to a condition called "phossy jaw", where mouth wounds are caused that fail to heal and the jawbone eventually breaks down.

11/20/2005 - 11/27/2005 2005

Compare me with one of those rascals who disseminate phossy jaw and lead poisons, compare me with a millionaire who runs a music hall with an eye to feminine talent, or an underwriter, or the common stockbroker.

Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

He is clothed in the lives of bent and thwarted weavers, his Way is lit by phossy jaw, he eats from lead-glazed crockery — all his ways are paved with the lives of men ....

Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

_Phosphorus_ in some forms is a poison whether taken in solid compounds or inhaled in fumes, producing phossy jaw.

Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency R. L. Alsaker

The inhalation of the fumes of phosphorus, as in making vermin-killers, etc., gives rise to 'phossy-jaw.'

Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

Similar figures for phosphine cannot be given, because poisoning therewith is very rare or quite unknown: the cases of "phossy - jaw" in match factories being caused either by actual contact with yellow phosphorus or by inhalation of its vapour in the elemental state.

Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield

The low wages that were reported at the meetings, the phossy jaw which was described and occasionally exhibited, the appearance of the girls themselves I did not, curiously enough, in any wise connect with what was called the labor movement, nor did I understand the efforts of the London trades-unionists, concerning whom I held the vaguest notions.

Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes 1910