Exposure, according to experts, causes short-term irritation in the nose, eyes and chest and long-term damage to the lungs leading to chronic respiratory diseases like byssinosis, also called
brown lung disease or 'Monday fever'.
Idiopathic Pulmonary Haemosiderosis (IPH), first described in 1851 by Virchow as '
brown lung in duration'' used to bean incidental finding at autopsy.
Historically, IPH was first noted by Virchow in 1864 as
brown lung induration.
If slave descendants are compensated, why not compensate the heirs of the earliest cotton mill workers, 70 percent of whom died of
brown lung disease?
Stevens' contempt for the law, the boycotters publicized unhealthy working conditions that led to byssinosis (
brown lung disease).