Document 53pj4w0mweqmb0OeqKLXzNjJ

__________________________________________________________________ 9. we'ra. talking about. If we'can get that far in agreement, maybe we can pull out some gems of light frim the discus sion. w,How, it seems to me, at least from my point of vii and perhaps I am prejudiced somewhat by my many years of | connection with this institution here, that we're concerned ! with occupational diseases of the lungs due to the inhala tion of dust, occupational diseases which occur all over tht world, which may cause disability and death, and which de not.occur except as occupational diseases, j A man can get lead poisoning by using the wrong i II kind of hair tonic. He can get carbon monoxide poisoning i ' by being careless in his garage. I never heard of a man | i gettingsilicosis working in hisgarden, orasbestosia | J J frompainting up in thegarrett. Theimportance ofthese ' ! { diseases has become recognized as far as modern industrial ! conditions are concerned, within the past forty-five years.| i The particular disease which has especially attracted at tention is the one that we now call silicosis. About 1918, Doctor Landish of the Phipps Insti tute who was one of the original group that studied indue- : trial diseases in this country, stated that organic dusts, ' textile-dust, vegetable dust, wood dust, did not cause the definite occupational lung disease which was becoming sere and more recognized as the evidence of surveys in many SEVENTH SARANAC -0037