A previous correspondent explained why whales don’t get the bends, and went on to describe how the bends were first encountered as caissons disease, ascribing this to deep hard rock mining. He was ...

Based on: Compressed-Air Illness; or, So-called Caisson Disease. By E. H. Snell, M.D., B.Sc. (Load.). pp. 251. London: H. K. Lewis. 1896.

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