Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable. — Alice Hamilton (image via The Huffington Post) Lead poisoning, lung disease, carbon monoxide poisoning — before Alice Hamilton investigated factory conditions in the late 1900s, factory workers blindly suffered from these toxic illnesses. In her work among Chicago's working class neighborhoods, Alice was the first doctor to draw the dotted line from the cramped, toxic-ridden, smoke-filled factories to the insidious diseases affecting many of the poorest workers.
A Woman to Know: Alice Hamilton
A Woman to Know: Alice Hamilton
A Woman to Know: Alice Hamilton
Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable. — Alice Hamilton (image via The Huffington Post) Lead poisoning, lung disease, carbon monoxide poisoning — before Alice Hamilton investigated factory conditions in the late 1900s, factory workers blindly suffered from these toxic illnesses. In her work among Chicago's working class neighborhoods, Alice was the first doctor to draw the dotted line from the cramped, toxic-ridden, smoke-filled factories to the insidious diseases affecting many of the poorest workers.