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FILE NAME: WR Grace (WRG)
DATE: December 14, 1937
DOC#: WRG027
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: 1937 Letter from Dr. Gardner to Metropolitan Life Insurance Company regarding Mr. Dewey Comments on Types of Asbestos (see WRG023).
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was interested- in the enclosure fron Manfred
Bowditch'.: I wish. I knew where Mrh Bradley Dewey pot his-
infcmation about the biologic reaction-to different.tyre3 'V .
of* asbestos. Our own experiments'-with, thse substances
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would indicate .that by injection,, at least, they are all* equally inert* Cases.of human asbestosis,-produced by -
these different substances .have been reported in the;.-]
literature and it ras.sy feeling that most peopile were ,
convinced^ that ther.o was little difference in'their:,;-M
capacity`to produc&.--pulrcnary reaction* We are. now expor
renting with-five different tyres, of.asbestos-." The.work
at--..present involves only injection# V;e.have-not been abl
to .undertake inhalation.with any. but Jdnadian crysettle .
r: ? W hope/to- do,.sbv sooner or later; --I am sending Manfred.'
'ory of-this- portion of th letter. -`.VI .
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