During the building of James Eads' St. Louis Bridge, several of the construction workers digging out the riverbed from inside the caissons fell ill. An alarmed Eads shortened his men's working hours, ...
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.
"Prize essay of the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1873." https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball ...