CLINICAL OBSERVATION ON THE LIVER FUNCTION OF THE BEAUTY ARTIST
1956 Volume 45 Issue 9 Pages 1090-1093
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1956 Volume 45 Issue 9 Pages 1090-1093
In the Fall of 1954 a beauty artist called on one of the author's clinic at the Tagawa Social Insurance Hospital complaining mainly of lassitude.
Medical examination showed that she had a disease in the liver. She said to the author that it was generally thought that the beauty artist was inclining to be attacked by liver disease. By careful observation we came to the thought that might be probable.
So we began a systematic examination and as a first step of it we examined the liver of 77 beauty artists, who were engaging in their business in Tagawa city of Fukuoka Prefecture, and obtained the following results:
1. Disturbance in the liver function was found in 26%.
2. It was however not clear whether or not age and duration of business had some relation with liver disturbance.
3. Among the patients the liver was palpable in 26%, and among the latter the liver disturbance was recognized in 25%.
