Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to E Bossard.
A short description of some medicinal plants found during a 10-year ethnological study of traditional medicine in Angola. The point of interest is the double use of these plants: they are employed as drugs and as ichthyotoxics or soaps.
The number and size distribution of fibres in the lungs of 11 asbestos-exposed and 10 nonexposed individuals were determined. For fibre isolation, low-temperature incineration of lung tissue was used. The mean numbers of fibres per gram of dry lung, based on light microscopy, were 141.9 X 10(6) and 1.5 X 10(6) in the asbestos-exposed and nonexposed lungs, respectively. The fibre length found most frequently ranged between 3-5 micrometers in both groups. Asbestos, either chrysotile or amphibole, was found only in the group occupationally exposed to asbestos. No correlation between number of fibres and lung pathology could be established.
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