caisson disease

If the workers were suffering some form of caisson disease, why ask me to make the house call?

"Actually, I believe that caisson disease is the one thing we can safely rule out."

It's true that I assumed, early on, it was caisson disease.

Crane had found this out the hard way, with his original theory of caisson disease.

Given the depth at which they were currently working, Crane felt certain caisson disease was involved one way or another.

And despite what Bishop had told him, he was still betting on caisson disease as the main differential.

Given the nature of the Deep Storm station, he'd assumed caisson disease.

I would like to spend the time educating you on the subject of caisson disease, also known as the bends."

He's suffering from what used to be called caisson disease - and hell never recover from it.

"These people aren't presenting with caisson disease," Crane said.

I've never experienced caisson disease from it.

Roebling would battle the after-effects from the caisson disease and its treatment the rest of his life.

The project chief engineer Washington Roebling suffered from caisson disease.

After all, if we're dealing with some variant of caisson disease here, it often presents in a variety of ways."

As he immersed himself in the project, Washington developed caisson disease, which affected him so badly that he became bed-ridden.

They gave him thirty minutes of conditioning against the caisson disease while Blake looked on with expressionless Silence.

She is best known for her contribution to the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge after her husband developed caisson disease.

Caisson disease?

This condition, first called "caisson disease" by the project physician Andrew Smith, afflicted many of the workers working within the caissons.

The original name for DCS was "caisson disease".

Between 1867 and 1874, work on the Eads Bridge over the Mississippi continued despite setbacks such as caisson disease.

However, the effects of pneumatic caissons were poorly understood, leading to the deaths of 14 workers due to caisson disease (also known as the bends).

Caisson disease was so named because it was first diagnosed in the mid-nineteenth century in men working in environments of compressed air.

And a follow-up email from the same day: "Decompression sickness, or caisson disease, or "the bends" was first documented in the 1840s.

'Caisson disease?'