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From ; - Msn'sStorei; Street Floor ,. and a selection,at Bergen ` County, Short Hills, Stamford. 59th at 3rd, New York 10022* Eli15-5900 cause of ignorance aKoutVthe caiae of for a scientific journey that thedisease,andbecause:iytM an apparently straigh tforward " ioelfilowlyandinsidiouslyoverApe- occupatiohal hygiene and that! riod of from ten to twenty years ;Orj` branched out into epidemioh more, asbestosis was probably more of-: cology, physical chemistry, phy terirthan not; misdiagnosed inthe early and experimental pathology, part. oi;;(the centur)' as 'pulmonary. tu- > stilt of studies made between iV-!i berculasisysilicosis, or fibrosing pneu- and 1931, a whole literature rel*| moniayln addition, coyness<n*the part asbestosis appeared in Greatii of industry, timidity on thepart of.:1a-,.I which included clinical and X-ray bor, and obtuseness on the part of the ings, descriptions of the histpla___ medicalpprofession often combined to' discase^and tlie hypothesis (soort^l make early investigations into the health' accepted) that the straiige-lnolanj ofasbestosworkers meaningless As a lowish-hrown i bodies noticed! by j result, even though: the ashestos indus were asbestos fibres that had ___ try was growing very rapidly in: all the| tered by the reaction of lung tissue^ industfializediiicountries of j the ,<world,| coated with a. colloidal substance^ almost nothing was done to control dust in iron.' In fact* Cooke's ` **cfi levels in asbestos factories, and almost bodies" proved to lie so abundant.iri medical;j:iniFi)rmaritin on asbestosis lungs of' autopsied .Tshestr>s wbrJ was gathered during the quarter of a many of which contained liter; cehturythatfollowedthedisclosuresnf lions of them, that they quickly Murray and Aurihault---althoughas- be called "asbestos bodies." bestos .workers -were probably dying , The most important invest! like flies of it. 1 this period iifwas^cpriducted ;:!byi It was 1924 before the first dear, E. R. A. ^lercw!ether/,'ai!med^, of ` death;:duetto' asbestosis ap^'j spector for tRe-'Factn^J^^rfiiiiiKSS in medical literature. In that ;the British Home Office. Between 1 year, Dr. \V. E. Cooke, ,an English and 1929, he .examinedithreelhundi physician, who gave the' disease itsji andsixty-thrceasbestos-textilewi name, performed a post-mortem ex out of an cstimated total of tvyehty" amination on athirtVrthree-year-old; hundred asbestos workers employed^ woman patient who had started work-; Great .'Britainr at '(the . tinier,.andplfo! lit- ;.;jk ing at the age of thirteen in an asbestos- that&nincty-fiyev. or slightly more textile factor)1 in which there was :noS! cwentv-fivep<r;c<;nt:sho'A-ed?eviden|5 provision ;ifor';ithe: removal of dust; :By;; of suffering frim\ pulmonary fibroSSC l9 l 7|?after thirteen years of exp*ure,| He also dcnipnstrattd,!;tha shehad been coughingand : in', bad? donee of .fibrosisiinoreased in directpro^ health, andiaffom; .then?.. portion to the numl oriMKeir ^attendance:', at? !`i>'f:`.!;yciirs}! i work had ^heely: inter ireachirigleighty^one mittent because of! cent in the : group, shoftnessofhreathand workers who had bei lassitude. .The autopsy Aptyea^eMehsive1:'pul^'- .;er|ijlcy|d;,1ip: diei'iijf!; try for twenty, y ` monary fibrosis and : orrmpyer','Air.a; ';i de'nse:istrands:of-- abnor SjdfifcjMeiewedie'f.V J BBS mal fibrous tissue con port,. Parliament pasigL* necting the lungs and legislatioh in! 193fc the pleural:membranes - that ?f made asbestos? surrounding them. In * ,i ` ' !'! a ' compensable . disease addition, Cm>ke noted: the presence of required improved methods of exhatSt solid yellowish-brown particles, which ventilation::and dust.stippression in'. 'he::raUed;"cutwus!bpdies," in': the areas? bestos-textile fnetories, and insntu.ted of:fibrosis.! "We? haVe!;never,,seen?any-:i periodica! ? ; medical u e.yaminations i -iol` thingparalleltothis in pneumoconU] workerslengdgedj'ih particulariy'diii^ /.h, ,j otps^idueji to'r'other dusW,:!:h.or.:''haye we! pniceSMS in!the!asbest(-textile inditttrp .been.'able[;tp:,;_find tjsuch'i-.pccurrence, in' After this promising hurst of activity, l!teraturei"!hedeclared,andheadded, however, progress in the fiild of asbep tosis was depressingly slow, for, as able doubt that -thypafticles! in the lung, things turned out, the doctors had only are the! heavy. bHttle. iroh-containing begun; to scratch the surface of a profc -fragtnenBpf. asbtps.fibre;?-niT. f lem of bewfldering complexity. Many Cooke'sdiscovery, which was pub-- investigators assumed that the new reg lished in the British Mrdlcal Journal of.; ulations would prove effective in cori; July 26, 1924, andrepublished in trolling the disease,: thus Jailing to ap-, 192 A,1 provided ;'tKe:!poim of departure preciate ' the fact that, once inhaled