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Page 3371 1 . the presence of these coated fibrous bodies which they 2 called curious bodies, and we now call asbestos 3 bodies, and coined the term asbestosis as a label for 4 this form of diffuse lung scarring. 5 At the same time Cooke had found out about 6 an earlier case not in the medical literature, but in 7 the records of the British home office at the turn of 8 the century describing a similar case. 9 Over the rest of the '20s, there were 10 additional case reports both in Britain and the United 11 States of a form of diffuse lung scarring associated 12 with asbestos exposure. 13 At that time it was well-known that some 14 dust, particularly silica, could cause diffuse lung 15 fibrosis. 16 So in 1929 the first study of a population, 17 an epidemiologic study, was done in Great Britain and 18 published in 1930, and this was a study by a physician 19 named Merewether who was the Chief Inspector of 20 Factories for the United Kingdom. 21 He looked at the workers in several plants