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The Brass Lung Winter

A four-year respiratory crisis spread through factory cities as coal smoke, metal dust and Resonant contamination combined.

Doctors disagreed whether the illness was chemical, infectious or occult; workers named it for the brass valves fitted to the worst sufferers.

Respirators and municipal air sirens became ordinary features of urban life.

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