Occurrence of fluorosis in endemic forms in Hyderabad state.
July 1945
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The Indian Medical Gazette
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Daver MB.
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80:332-6.
FIRST PAGE OF PAPER
All animal tissues and plants contain fluorine in very small amounts. It is found in soils, rocks and water.
No convincing evidence has been as yet produced to show that it performs any useful function in animal nutrition, or that it is essential for animal metabolism. During the past 15 years, however, evidence has been accumulated to show that the prolonged ingestion of abnormal quantities produces a chronic toxic state, the earliest visible sign of which is called 'mot