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She argues that if one is going to talk about archive fever one should be thinking epidemiology and not metaphor.53 Deconstructing the title of this volume by our most eminent deconstructionist, Steedman claims it would be more accurate to characterize archive fever as an occupational or industrial disease.
tional or industrial disease in early nineteenth-century England and describes a grow- ing recognition of the threats posed by the production and handling of printed vol- umes, including "meningitis due to or as a complication of anthrax."55 Historians work- ing in archives breathe in "the dust of the workers who made the papers and parch- ments, the dust of the animals who provided the skins for their leather bindings, the by-product of all the filthy trades that have, by circuitous routes, deposited their end- products in the archives."56 This, according to Steedman, is the "etiology of Archive Fever Proper," and it would be more fitting as a "new entry for the medical dictionar- ies" than as the title of a treatise on the psychoanalytic meaning of the historical record.57 Steedman is impatient with the archive as metaphor.
'a cement', Thackrah produced the most striking and potent image of the book as a locus of a١vhole range of industrial diseases.2؛ This stinking glue was probably one among several of the transmitters of the Archive Fever ( Proper) discussed here.
From Industrial Disease to Environ-
But theirs were arguments about the physical effect of minutely repeated movements of hand and arm; the comparison was with telegraphists (telegraphists' cramp was a scheduled industrial disease for which benefit might be claimed indefinitely under the National Insurance legislation of 1911) and with comptometers.
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