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V December 14* 1987 Anthony 1* Lanxa, X.D. Axsistant Medical Director Metropolitan Life Insurance Company 1 ladiaon Avenue lev Xork, lev lork tT4-JL >/fo/s Dear Zonyi Purtner referring to the subject natter of ny letter to you of December 10th( I have juat noted in the current issue of the Arohiv flr Qeverbepathologie und Geverbehygiene (8 Band, 2 Heft) an artiole by W* di Biaei *Zur pathologiacncn Anutomie der Lungenaabeetose" in vhioh, if wg German has not failed me too badly, he indicates at least mild enthu siasm for mecuanic&l causation, combined with chemical* This fits la with Bradley Dewey* s theory, about which Z wrote you, he being of the opinion that Canadian asbestos is pretty harmless aecnanically and Bus- sian, the converse* As a layman wandering around In comparatively Stygian outer darkness, I listen to all these bright ideas and find that they give me more or less mental indigestion* If Old Doe Lansa has a pink pill specific to the situation, I hope he will prescribe it* In the light of some of your remarks when we last met, Z have read the editorial in the December 11th J*A*HA* on the Council an In dustrial Health with just a bit of amusement* The boys ore Certainly good at patting themselves on the back for little or no reason* 8iaoerely, MB ZB F* 8* Manfred Bowditch Director Please don't feel obliged to inform me that Rhodesia is In Africa I am given to understand that there is one variety of asbestos known as Rhodesian end another variety, balling from elsewhere in the same continent, known as African. Pernaps this is Just another instance of my abysmal ignorance*