Mule spinners' cancer or mule-spinners' cancer was a cancer, an epithelioma of the scrotum. It was first reported in 1887 in a cotton mule spinner. In...

adopted the mule. Circa 1900 there was a high incidence of scrotal cancer detected in former mule spinners. It was limited to cotton mule spinners and did...

cotton. It took three carders to provide the roving for one spinner, and up to three spinners to provide the yarn for one weaver. The process was continuous...

1878 at a time when the ailment was likely not fully understood. Mule spinners' cancer Encyclopædia Britannica. "Epithelioma". Retrieved 22 February 2016...

productivity without changing the rate at which thread could be spun, disrupting spinners and weavers alike. Kay tried to promote the fly-shuttle in Bury, but could...

lubrication was carcinogenic and led to cancers of the mouth and cancer of the scrotum; known as mule-spinners cancer. A mill worker could expect to work...

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hydrocarbons, were found to cause cancer in laboratory animals. The related cancer is called mule spinners' cancer. General Surgery Lecture notes, H....

allergy Lead poisoning Low back pain Mesothelioma Metal fume fever Mule spinners' cancer Noise-induced hearing loss Phossy jaw Pneumoconiosis Radium jaw...

number and variety of small spinners; some having a single jenny at home to others who had small factories with several mules. By 1786, he had become the...